The South African Weather Services in Port Elizabeth said good rainfall was measured in certain parts of the Eastern Cape up until 8 o clock on Monday morning.
Spokesperson, Garth Sampson said, "parts of the Nelson Mandela Bay's catchment area received between 30mm and 42mm's".
"This rain is nice but it's not enough to make a marked impact on the dams because the farm dams must fill up first before the water can run off into the dams. Then the very good news is that we are expecting some good falls this coming weekend which should make an impact on the dam," he said.
Sampson said the following measurements were recorded for this past weekends rainfall.
Nelson Mandela Bay:
Riverstone Bridge- 44.4
Port Elizabeth Airport- 40.8
Fettes Road- 39.8
Chatty - 39.2
Uitenhage - 37.8
Flower Reserve- 35.4
Motherwell- 33.0
3rd Ave Dip- 32.2
St Albans- 28.4
Blue Horizon Bay- 27.2
Coega - 26.6
Catchment:
Swartkops- 49.6
Patensie- 42.2
Kareedouw - 40
Joubertina - 32.2
Kouga Dam 30.0
Other Towns:
Addo - 36.2
Joubertina- 32.2
Cape St Francis- 26.2
Plettenberg Bay- 14.0
Port Alfred- 12.8
Bisho/KWT- 12.4
Henry`s Flats- 8.0
Fort Beaufort -5.4
Mossel Bay -4.4
East London- 4.4
George- 3.8
Mthatha- 3.6
Graaff Reinet- 2.8
Cradock- 2.0
Grahamstown- 2.0
Queenstown- NIL
Sampson told Algoa FM News that more rain can be expected towards the coming weekend.
