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THE REPORTER 11 APRIL 2025 · PAGE 3

Nancy Myburgh sent us the above photograph with this
caption: “I got stuck in front of this bridge on 17 March.
The water was over the bridge. The water took an hour to
subside enough for me to be able to drive my car over the
bridge safely.

To start with after the only 2 were in double
The photographs above is of a storm in the Motkop
area, Lady Grey and left a photograph of a rainbow heatwave conditions we are figures. Then the month
only now having the general
ended with a big spurt of
on 25 March 2025. rain needed for the whole 39.1mm to eventually pass
Photographs Cloete du Plessis area to benefit as what we the average by 9 mm.
have been having has been Since then we have received
as the late Hope Green once 2 further falls of 12.7 and
remarked, "Randomly
sprinkling on a sheet of 11.7mm and at present
(11:03 on the 4th of April) it
blotting paper" or as Rassie is overcast and still raining
calls "misty weather, gently, a typical Irish "soft
because we missed all those day".
showers falling elsewhere".
Here are the details of the
My rainfall for the month was
like the results of the Sharks month's rainfall.
in the U R C a thrilling last 1st - 7.8 (on previous
moments dash to win. month's total) 2nd - 0.4, 3rd
Although the humidity - 3.0, 5th - 6.9, 6th - 17.9,
remained high throughout 7th - 4.8, 8th - 10.2, 12th
the month, when compared 0.6, 13th - 1.0, 14th- 6.8,
to the average monthly total 15th - 0.8, 16th - 6.5, 17th -
of 108.3 mm from 11.8 days 1.0, 18th - 1.3, 19th - 0.6,
of recorded rain we on the 23rd - 1.8, 25th - 3.7, 28th -
The two photographs were taken by Kevin Meise. The first shows a beautiful sunrise with a lot of cloud cover (10 March) 29th of March were at 78.2 1.1, 29th - 8.8, finally on the
and the second one is of the heavy clouds over Barkly East on 25 March 2025 mm from 18 days of which 31st - 39.1.

Deuteronomy 28:12 – “The LORD will open the
heavens, the storehouse of His bounty, to send rain on
your land in season and to bless all the work of your
hands.