Cape Town June 2017 Storm

Cape Town dam levels rise after storm, but nowhere near enough

Great news, Cape Town. Your major dam levels have finally seen an increase week-over-week, albeit a tiny one. After Wednesday’s punchy cold front and…

Winter in the Western Cape: Instagram laced with weekend snow pictures

Last week’s cold front brought some extreme weather to South Africa’s Western Cape. Along with driving rain and gale-force winds in Cape Town, it…

YouTube videos capture devastation of Cape Town storm, Knysna fire

We use the likes of Twitter, Instagram and Facebook extensively when covering stories across South Africa, but when the Cape Town storm rolled across…

GoFundMe campaign for Knysna Fire relief smashes crowdfunding goal

A GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign created to help the victims of the Knysna fires has raised three-times its goal amount in a single day. The…

#KnysnaFire: locals turn to Facebook, WhatsApp for help

Social media, for all its pitfalls and swathe of untruths, is seemingly the best way to keep abreast of new information emanating from a…

Cape Town brands look to profit off hashtags #CapeStorm and #KnysnaFire

With every tragedy comes an outpouring of love and support from social media. Thoughts, prayers and tangible help are all offered to those in…

Knysna Fire: another Western Cape disaster trends on social media

Knysna, a town situated on the Garden Route approximately 420km east of Cape Town, is battling a huge blaze sweeping across dense indigenous forest….

Facebook activates Safety Check for Cape Town’s storm-affected

Facebook has activated its Safety Check feature for those in Cape Town following a severe cold front that lashed the city Tuesday evening through…

Tornadoes and Katrina: the totally fake news from Cape Town’s storm

If you’re reading this piece, good for you. It means that you’re actively searching for the truth among the steaming pile of manure that…

Cape Town storm: what’s running, delayed or cancelled in the city

You’ve probably heard the numerous warnings on social media about the weather set to rock Cape Town on Wednesday, but if you haven’t, it’s…

Everyone in Cape Town is a closet meteorologist, Facebook thread reveals

Cape Town’s citizens just love talking about the weather, and that’s no more apparent than in this Facebook comment thread. Popular snow forecast and…

#StormHelen: Twitter names Cape Town’s storm after Helen Zille

It’s common practice for the United States’ National Hurricane Centre to give storms common names, but not cold fronts. Cape Town seems to think…

Track Cape Town’s storm in realtime with these 3 free resources

You might’ve heard passing reports about Cape Town’s inclement weather forecast today. These reports suggest that the oncoming cold front will be one of…

Alerts ring across Twitter as Cape Town’s Wednesday storm bears closer

Weather is usually a subject of awkward small talk, but in Cape Town in 2017 it’s all everyone is talking about. While the city’s…

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