Times Of Swaziland: SIKHUPHE, NYONYANE  RECEIVE HIGHEST RAINFALL

SIKHUPHE, NYONYANE  RECEIVE HIGHEST RAINFALL
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BY PHEPHILE MOTAU on 17/02/2017 01:19:00


MBABANE – It didn’t rain but it poured. According to data from the Swaziland
Meteorological Services Department, 50 millimetres of rainfall was collected at
Nyonyane in six hours yesterday.
Nyonyane is situated near Lomahasha, one of the places where the effects of
Cyclone Dineo was felt in the country.
It was revealed that Mhlume and surrounding areas also received a lot of
rainfall yesterday, as it was situated near where the cyclone showed a lot of
strength.
According to Dumisani Sithole, from the Swaziland Meteorological Service,
Lomahasha may have received more rainfall than Nyonyane, but the data had not
been collected by yesterday at 4pm.
He said they had only been able to collect data between 8am and 2pm yesterday
from their automatic stations, and data from their manual station would be
collected this morning.
On another note, Sithole said the country was not affected by strong winds, as
no area recorded winds of above 50 km/hr.
Sithole said Cyclone Dineo was now in its dying stages, but it still had
potential to bring good rains. He said the rains should be expected last night
and today.
“Dineo is now abating, but this is happening at a gradual rate, and the
cyclone still has the potential to give us more rainfall later today (yesterday)
and tomorrow (today),” he said. Meanwhile, Sikhuphe received the highest
rainfall between Wednesday at 8am and yesterday at 8am.
A total of 59.5 mm of rainfall was collected in the area yesterday morning.
Sithole said they had not yet collateral the amount of rainfall which was
received yesterday from the area, as they had a manual station.
Other areas which have manual stations are Mhlume and Matsapha.