Let me tell you a bit about Cape Town:
Cape Town is a moderately warm city, with around 4 million residents (but I could be wrong, it’s growing fast). It is home to the 2nd most popular tourist attraction in Africa, after the pyramids. It is home to Table Mountain, a mountain which is flat on top, here’s a picture:
And here’s a map, Cape Town is at the bottom:
It’s a lovely place, because of its warm, and sometimes extremely hot summers (temperatures can reach around 40 degrees Celsius on a cloudless day) and it’s wet winters, which aren’t known to be freezing, the temperature is probably at worst 0 degrees Celsius during the night, so I was completely surprised that the ocean had almost FROZEN UP, this is possibly the first time it has happened in the last 20 years, if not more!
Take a look, but could this be a sign of environmental change?
This is a city that many tourists come to every year for its warm, but not killing, weather! And now there’s ICE?
UPDATE: Dennis, who posted a comment below stated that these pictures are from Russia, and living in Cape Town myself, I also found them a little bit suspicious. Anyway, I stand corrected… but I’ll be keeping the post up as the pictures from pretty amazing
July 1, 2007 at 18:37
Holy Crap… GLOBAL freezing… haha
thats horrid!
October 14, 2007 at 04:49
wow, amazing.
i use to live and cape town, and been to the beach in winters, but never seen this happen before. it definately is a sign of environmental change…a bad one.
October 17, 2007 at 20:52
People, come on. It’s NOT Cape Town… I live there and it didn’t look like that this winter.
Those pictures have been circulating for a while - it’s somewhere in Russia. Go figure
PS:
“possibly the first time it has happened in the last 20 years”
..it’s never happened.
January 11, 2008 at 19:17
I agree. I’ve lived in Cape Town my entire life. This has never happened.
January 31, 2008 at 14:50
Come on, next winter I´ll take a sun bath at North pole!
Its not cape town, but looks like the beach in front off Ritz Hotel.
February 9, 2008 at 01:30
hi everyone,im argentinian men and i never have seen sudafrica likes too cold but i think that is an amazing view on the winter.i would like to visit the old aprtheid and so can see a lot of photos about nelson mandela and his life.
i hope to send me some files and if you want a cup of mails and so i ll could to talk with us.
gabriel
pd:nice to meet you can to talk with us.
March 16, 2008 at 20:08
wuts gud….
Ive lived in SA my whole life and never has that happend.THATS NOT CAPE TOWN
July 15, 2008 at 10:48
Nice! Coming soon Cape Town…
July 17, 2008 at 22:03
This has been going on for so long I can’t believe you are all so stoopid!! Just look at the picture with a harbour in the background. What were you smoking when you were in Cape Town? - if you have ever been here.
If you haven’t been come and enjoy. Promise no ice on the railings
August 31, 2008 at 23:39
i was also going to say that these pics must be a hoax. although, this weekend the weather has been some of the most incredible we have ever seen. camps bay beach road was closed due to the waves washing over, and our car got drenched in foam whilst driving through sea point. exciting stuff, but yes, could well be a sign of the times…
jim
http://www.cometocapetown.com
August 31, 2008 at 23:40
tesr