Weather update

Cathedral Peak

Queenstown

 Above: Sutherland a few minutes ago

Update: All taxi passengers saved, partly through social media. No one dead in ship disaster, ditto.

Durban being hammered beyond belief. Here is why.

Update: Philani Nkosi writes: There is a taxi from Eastern Cape which is stuck in Van Reenens Pass between Tugela Plaza and Mount-Trose in this taxi there is a pregnant woman with her 3-year-old son with her sister and with her 25-day-old baby girl they have been stuck there since yesterday. 

Update: This Volksrust, on the border of KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga:


http://saweatherobserver.blogspot.com/2011/07/these-pictures-was-captured-this.html


Update: Hundreds of people trapped, power lines down, hundreds caught in buses in the snow. Massive flooding cutting off roads. Maximum temperatures as low as ,4C.

Update: All the roads that have been closed

R61 Route: Road Closed between Graaff-Reinet and Cradock
N9 Route, Road Closed between Middelburg and Graaff-Reinet
N5 Route, Road Closed between Bethlehem and Harrismith
N11 Route, Road Closed between Newcastle and Volksrust
N3 Road Closed Johannesburg / Durban between Villiers  and Tugela Plaza
N6 Penhoek Pass between Jamestown - Queenstown
R58 Barkly Pass between Elliot - Barkly East
R67 Nico Malan Pass between Whittlesea - Seymour
N9 Road Closed between Middelburg and Noupoort
R61 Route: Road Closed between Graaff-Reinet and Cradock
N10 Route: Road Closed between Middleburg and Hanover
R61 Route: Road Closed between Cradock and Queenstown via Tarkastad
N3 Van Reenens Pass, Road Closed due to snow and ice
N1 Road Closed between Springfontein and Gariepdam
R58 Kraairiver Pass between  Lady Grey en Barkly-Oos.
N6 Road Closed between Reddersburg and Smithfield

Original post:
1 There is a real chance of snow in southern Gauteng today, especially in Vereeniging
2 Many roads are closed across the country, notably Van Reenen's Pass, Victoria West-Three Sisters, Beaufort West-Richmond and most of the Eastern Cape
3 Temperatures are expected to drop to as low as 7 today in Johannesburg
4 Massive swells on the coast
5 East London took 152mm yesterday, extensive flooding in PE, which took 60mm in a few hours, and all dams are full, but
6 First sleet ever recorded in Mossel Bay
7 Durban will not rise above 13
8 Giant storm hit Pietermartizburg yesterday