Cape Town Weather Report

Do you ever wonder, how they derive the Cape Town weather report? For one, depending on where you are relative to the mountain, you can have a different result in terms of outcome and experience. Add that on any given day, if you don't like the weather in Cape Town, you only have to wait five minutes and you will have a different version of the weather (poetic license utilised in that statement).

Take today for instance! It was dry but partly cloudy when I went to Kalk Bay. Temperature forecast for Cape Town was thirteen degrees according to the pilot when I landed. Overcast, but not raining, but there was not a piece of blue sky in Kalk Bay

Driving back from Kalk Bay, when I got closer to Steenberg, it was sunny. There were hardly any clouds, and I could see more blue sky than clouds, as you can see below!

A few hours later, I was in Hout Bay and it was drizzling and windy. This was enough to have some spray on the camera but not enough to make me feel it was dangerous to use the camera. A simple grey sky.

It was a down pour in Constantia by the time I came back from Hout Bay. This image below, I took inside the car as none of my cameras would be safe to use out there!

So I ask you, when there is a weather report, and Cape Town is the geography with stats forecast, what are they actually measuring?