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The Port Elizabeth Airport is facing potentially its driest combined rainfall figures for January and February on record.
PE weather office spokesperson Garth Sampson reports that after a disastrously dry January, the start of February has been equally dry in Nelson Mandela Bay.
Sampson says that if the City does not receive around 10 mm before the end of the month, Port Elizabeth Airport would experience the driest combined figure for January and February on record, which is from 1900 to 2021.
The PE Airport only received 11 mm of rain in January, and to date, it has measured a mere 2mm so far in February.
Sampson says that with the short term forecast showing no major rains in the next few days, and the seasonal forecast showing no clear signal for above or below normal rainfall, the future is looking dismal.
This is especially because the combined level of Nelson Mandela Bay’s four main supply dams had dropped to a total of 18.08% of capacity by Monday and is dropping at a rate of just under 0.5% per week.
