Originally Posted by
Cheetah_SA
Seriously?! I have lived in Cape Town for 35 years and can say hand on heart I have never experienced "heavy rain for three weeks solid". A review of historical climate data confirms this very easily. And that we have fewer days of rainfall and far less precipitation than Scotland. Very occasionally we have three weeks of grey skies with intermittent showers. And then the temperature is very seldom less than 10 degrees. Much like many an English summer, as has been pointed out. Hardly a debilitating climate physically or emotionally, surely.
And as for wind, the short, sharp north westerly squalls of winter seem to me positively bracing compared to the enervating and at times endless south easters of summer.
Apologies if my comments on The Mother City appear harsh; that was not the intention. I do love Cape Town a lot. But the wind in summer drove me to distraction and the seemingly endless winter rain also got to me. I guess much depends on where one stays in CT, where there are numerous micro-climates. I vividly remember once having a splendid lunch at Constantia Uitisig in glorious sunshine and then travelling through Newlands a little later in pouring rain.