March was a very dry month in Scottburgh. As the one-time SABC weather presenter Graham Hart used to say, there was only ‘a spit and a spot’ of rain.
Of course, this all changed this week with the massive thunderstorm on Easter Sunday, bringing back memories of the April floods last year, when Scottburgh experienced 260mm on April 11, 2022.
The scant rainfall figures for March are as follows: 13th – 10mm; 17th – 5mm; 20th – 1mm; 22nd – 11mm; 23rd – 2mm. Total rainfall for March: 29mm.
This meagre rainfall comes into sharp focus when compared to last March when 269mm of rain was recorded in Scottburgh (and 418mm during the flood month of last April).
Rainfall during March over the past five years was: 2022 – 269mm; 2021 -107,5mm; 2020 – 58mm; 2019 – 93mm; 2018 – 86,5mm. With the exception of last year, March on the South Coast is generally a dry month, with this past March being the driest month we have experienced in the last nine years.
TONY MASON
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