All but one of Cape Town’s dams are overflowing, with an overall storage rate of 99.1% after the latest cold front, the city said in its latest dam report.
The dams are 1.8% fuller than a week ago and almost 40% fuller than four years ago, when Cape Town was recovering from a devastating drought.
Theewaterskloof, the city’s biggest dam, is 104.4% full and has been overflowing for more than a week.
The only dam not at capacity is Voelvlei, at 80.4%, but this too is likely to rise sharply after the latest deluge of rain and snow.
Meanwhile, much of the country was blanketed in snow on Monday as a cold front marched across the highveld, with unusual snowy scenes even on the streets of Johannesburg. The freezing temperatures coincided with a spike in loadshedding as many turned to electric heating.
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