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Coldest morning for PE in five years


 Its been a chilly morning across the Eastern Cape with the weather office saying Port Elizabeth had experience its coldest morning since 2008.

Weather office spokesperson, Garth Sampson, says the mercury dipped to a frosty 1.9 degrees Celsius as a result of cloudless conditions and maximum outgoing radiation.

He says in 2008 the mercury dropped to 0.7 degrees Celsius in Nelson Mandela Bay.

But, despite this record, other parts of the province were significantly colder.

Jamestown and Barkley East were a mind-numbing minus 10, while Elliot, Aliwal North, Cradock and Graaff-Reinet experienced sub-zero temperatures of between minus 3.7 to minus eight degrees.

Snow was also reported on the peaks of mountains in eight areas across the province.

Other notable minimum temperatures were:
Joubertina -0.7C
Uitenhage 0.8 C
East London 5.6C
Geaorge 3.7C
Graaf-Reinett -3.1C
Cradock -3.3C
Queenstown -6.2C
Jamestown -10.1C
Barkley East -10.1C
Elliot -7.9C
Aliwal North -8.6C

Snow was spotted high up on the Cockscomb mountain this morning.

Over the weekend snow was reported in the following areas:
Southern Drakensberg
Lootsberg
Sneeuberg
Hogsback
Elliot
Matatiele
Peak Formosa
Whittlesea
Isolated peaks of the Kouga Mountains

Conditions are clearing and starting to warm up towards Wednesday,