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Port Elizabeth and surrounds have recorded the second wettest winter on record.
Weather office spokesperson Garth Sampson, says the 2002 record of 405mm for the second wettest winter was surpassed at 2pm on Sunday when 424 mm of rain was measured.
He also says the all time record of 452 mm measured in 1979 is now in danger of being surpassed.
With 18 days left this winter, 28mm of rain is needed to set a new winter-rainfall record.
More rain is predicted for later this week.
Sampson says the first seven months of the year is by far the wettest on record, with 695 mm measured untill the 31st of July.
The previous record was 1979, when 673 mm was measured.
