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“This curious phenomenon of snowfall in November adds another damage to already challenging driving conditions in the Eastern Cape.”
We sure have had one of the wettest and most bone-chilling winters yet, so we are all lus for some solid sun.
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This looks like a scene from the Narnia movies.
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The ski resort has served adventurous South Africans for over 30 years and was ranked the 19th-best ski run in the world in 2014.
On Sunday night, a cold front swept over the country, dropping temperatures to the negatives in some parts, allowing snow to buffet down and surprise people the next day.
Us Saffas still glamourise the icy stuff because, as a rare occurrence in only some parts of our country at particular times in the year, we are not treated to it enough to quite get over it.
You might be overwhelmed right now, but at least you didn’t slide down a narrow ice hole in the French Alps while skiing.
It has been so cold that one of China’s northernmost cities broke its lowest-ever recorded temperature.
A series of cold fronts are expected to make landfall in the Western Cape between Friday and Saturday, with the possibility of snow as well.
Remarkably, the British tourist and his fellow trekkers came out unscathed after a massive avalanche raced over them from the mountains they were just about to climb.
If you didn’t think it was possible to relate to a third-grade boy on a deep level, then you haven’t met “exhausted” Carter Trozzolo.
The last time it snowed on Cape Town’s iconic mountain was August 29 last year.
The Western Cape government is insisting that a road in the Matroosberg area should remain closed to protect the area’s biodiversity, but the owners of the Matroosberg Private Nature Reserve don’t agree.
Table Mountain was blanketed in snow this weekend, and there were similar scenes across the province.
As the joke goes, the drop in temperature is from bar fridges across the country turning on, in honour of alcohol sales resuming today.
South Africa’s only ski and snowboarding resort was gearing up for a bumper winter before the COVID-19 pandemic laid waste to those plans.
The Western Cape has bee hit by a serious cold snap, and nowhere is that more evident than in the Matroosberg Nature Reserve, outside Ceres.
If you’re planning a ski trip to France, you might want to check in and see if any powder awaits you upon arrival.
Some snow can be fun if you don’t mind the cold. Then there’s the kind of snow that traps you in your house, consumes your car, and takes out your electricity.
Freezing temperatures and strong winds left this house in upstate New York encased in a solid shell of ice.
America’s Midwest in the throes of a record-setting cold snap, with schools closing and some workers staying at home.
I know you’re probably sipping on some craft beer, but these guys are selling in excess of 10 billion litres of beer each year. Not that we’ve heard much about it.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, on NASA’s Terra satellite, acquired these natural-colour images of Lesotho blanketed in snow.
Skiers and snowboarders hitting the eastern European slopes this past weekend were greeted with a Martian-like surface. I wonder what Elon thought?
While the words ‘snow’ and ‘desert’ are hardly ever seen in the same sentence, Sunday saw the Sahara Desert covered in a blanket for the third time in 40 years.
Usually we wouldn’t give a damn about the Buffalo Bills playing the Indianapolis Colts, except for the fact that Sunday’s showdown wasn’t exactly par for the course.