Monday, 9 April 2012

SA National Severe Weather Warning: 9 April 2012 16h00 SAST


Current warning: Eastern Cape
Updated: 09/04/2012 15:38:29
Warning: Take action
Subject: Heavy Rain with possible flash flooding.
Detail: Valid: 09/04/2012 ----------------- Warning: 1. Heavy rain is expected in the Nelson Mandela Metro this afternoon with possible flash flooding.

Current warning: Western Cape
Updated: 09/04/2012 15:38:29
Warning: Take action
Subject: No Alerts (?????????????????????)
Detail: No Alerts  (??????????????????????)

Current warning: All other Provinces
Updated: 09/04/2012 15:38:29
No warnings nor advisories in effect
Subject: No Alerts
Detail: No Alerts

- SAWS

SAWDOS - Once again this afternoon's warnings by the SA Weather Service is confusing and misleading. The map indicate that the Eastern and Western Cape have red warnings and that action must be taken. The Eastern Cape warning reflect subject and detail information while the Western Cape warning indicate that action must be taken but no subject or detail of the warning appear in the description area. Now once again we have to ask the question whether a warning has been issued or not for the Western Cape? Your guess is as good as mine. Eish the SAWS cannot seem to get this sorted and they want to be the only "authoritative voice" to issue weather warnings. The way they handled weather warnings this weekend needs to be investigated on the highest level. A further concern is the fact that no warning was issued for snowfall this weekend. Why was this not deemed necessary?

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