Extreme Weather Yesterday and Today (STATS)

Maximum Temperature

Date: Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Highest Recorded: 41.6 °C
Recorded at: Vioolsdrif - Aws

Date: Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Lowest Recorded: 18.4 °C
Recorded at: Port Nolloth

Minimum Temperature

Date: Wednesday, 17 October 2007
Highest Recorded: 25.1 °C
Recorded at: Twee Rivieren

Date: Wednesday, 17 October 2007
Lowest Recorded: 6.5 °C
Recorded at: Sutherland

Rainfall
Date: Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Highest Recorded: 33.4 mm
Recorded at: Rustenburg

400%

Greenland's ice masses are melting at an accelarating rate. 400% more ice has melted than the 2004 figure. That's around 50-100 cobic kilometres a year for starts, up to around 300 cubic kilometres now. Ice melt was measured using GPS stations located on mountains along the ice cap.*

*Source: The Saturday Star

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From eighty20:
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