Does it snow in South Africa?
Yes. When i say it snows, i dont mean like other countries where you get snow knee high or anything, but in the Drakensburg you will get snow on top of the mountains and around the Drakensburg/Harrismith area you will occasionally get snow if winter gets really cold. In Johannesburg it has snowed once in the last 22 years. Snow isnt all that common in the main areas of South Africa.
Which country in Africa does snow fall in?
There is ... snow in AfricaAlgeriaEthiopiaMoroccoTunisiaSouth AfricaTanzania - KilimanjaroUganda - Rwenzori MountainsIfrane - MoroccoFrom the moment you arrive in Ifrane, there is an overriding feeling of freshness. Wide avenues, parks, European-style villas – here you will discover a little-known side of North Africa. There is an abundance of springs and lakes in this region at the heart of a dense cedar forest. The sloped-roof chalets are astonishingly reminiscent of Switzerland. This makes for an infinitely enjoyable break. On the Azrou road to the south-east, a large number of dormant volcanoes make up the countryside around Ito, a rocky landscape which reminds many people at dusk of lunar craters.Website: Ifrane travel - Mountains, Middle Atlas - Moroccan Tourist OfficeIfrane is waiting for you :) Take a look
What's the coldest time to visit South Africa?
I think a better question would be WHERE as opposed to WHEN.Obviously, being in the southern hemisphere, we have a hot Christmas as opposed to a white Christmas. Our Autumns (Fall) starts in March and our Winters in June.The only part of South Africa that accurately and consistently matches your description of cold weather is the Drakensberg. (Dragon Mountains)The Drakensberg covers a huge area and is spectacularly beautiful and unforgettably picturesque. For a country as hot as South Africa, believe it or not, we even have our own year-long ski resort. It’s true. It’s called Tiffindell.Check it out here: Tiffindell Ski Resort | Ski and Snowboarding Resort | South AfricaI’ve never been there but I hear it’s nice.Otherwise, if you like cold and rainy weather, visit the beautiful Cape Town during our winter months. It’s very rainy and wet during those months. Also, as an added bonus, you’ll be able to enjoy the bigger Western Cape area (with its world famous wine farms and wine estates established by the French Huguenots) at off-peak rates! A major saving! After which you can be whisked off to the Drakensberg for some skiing and snowboarding.Enjoy!*EDIT - Oops, Tiffindell isn’t a year long ski resort. It only snows there during the winter months. So yeah, that’s the time to visit the Cape and the Drakensberg.
How is winter like in South Africa?
Up here in the north of SA it is dry with lots of veld fires and air pollution. It is is ugly and the sky is often more brown than blue. Almost everyone is coughing in Johannesburg during winter. The temperature at day time is often pleasant but with cold nights.It is a good time of the year to see animals in our game reserves as vegetation is more sparse and animals are more likely to congregate at water holes.It often snow in the Drakensberg mountains and to hike to the top to see the snow is a lot of fun. The Cape mountains also experiences snow from time to time.Winter is a good time to head north-west into the neighbouring country of Namibia. Winter is the best time to hike in theit desert as it is not so hot then. Namibia should be on everyone's bucket list, it is an amazing country.The Western Cape gets winter rain. In late winter this place is very, very beautiful with an amazing display of flowers. There are thousands of different types of wild-flowers often spanning entire fields. The combination of flowers, rugged mountains and tea-coloured streams and waterfalls makes this the most beautiful place I have ever experienced.
Why is much of Australia a desert even though other places at the same latitudes like those in South America is not?
If you look at the position of Australia compared to South America you see that the latter has far less land mass around the Tropic of Capricorn than Australia.Earths hottest, largest and driest deserts are usually found between 20 and 35 degrees N and S.Deserts owe their dryness to a number of factors:Permanent high pressure. You find those around 23 degrees N and S, as already mentionedCold ocean currents nearbyRain shadow from large and high mountain rangesLarge continental landmass.South America’s deserts are mostly formed through cold ocean currents on its west coast, enhanced by the presence of the Andes mountain range.23 degrees S is about where Southern Brazil and Northwestern Argentina is located at. Here, the continent is a mere 1000 miles across, and its width diminishes as you go south. Australia on the other hand measures a full 2500 miles from coast to coast, and still some 1500 miles North-South.So, no matter where the wind blows from, once it gets into Australia’s center, it will be dry. All moisture will have pretty much dissipated. However, Australia’s deserts are are rather “wet” compared to other desert areas. If climate statistics are to be trusted, Alice Springs is getting some 180 to 200 mm of rain per year, 7–8 inches. That is right in the center. That is about 10 times as much as you usually get over at any site of the Atacama Desert.But there are more desert-like lands in South America as commonly thought, in Southern Argentina, you have a pretty sizeable chunk of dryland one could also call a desert. Patagonia. This is mainly caused by rain shadow effect from the Andes to the West and cold ocean currents in the Southern Atlantic. And cold is the operative here!By this measure, South America gets about 800′000 sq miles of desert areas, compared to Australia’s 1.6 million sq miles. The Americas (North and South) just lucked out by having their narrowest sections right there where the desert belt is located. God’s own Country after all :D!
Who would be in your ideal James Bond cast?
BOND GIRL: Christian Bale...has role as a protagonist seems very fit especially from his exceptional performance in the recent batman films BOND GIRL: Milla Jovovich..she has starred in the Resident Evil film series as Alice..her appeal and performance as an action type hero would suite her well to fight along with bond. VILLAIN: Cilllian Murphy..having played two high-profile villain roles: Dr. Jonathan Crane(Scarecrow) in Batman Begins, and Jackson Rippner in the thriller Red Eye. he has the talent to play as a truly convincing villain and his pale blue eyes are cold enough to freeze water and has a menacing wolf-like facial status. In addition to playing Scarecrow in "Batman Begins" All of the actors seem age appropriate...Bale is 38, Jovovich is 36 and Murphy is 36...
How cold is it in Johannesburg and Cape Town in South Africa right now and is it snowing?
I went for a long hike with the Mountain Club of South Africa in a mountain near Johannesburg about a week ago. There were several mountain pools and waterfalls. We swam in each of them, the last time I swam with all my clothes on. When I got back to the car they were dry again.There is a rule in South Africa: Any month without an R in its name means that you might need a jersey and the nights will be long. Children hate months without R in its name!In our part of the world Christmas means swimming outside, sitting under trees and walking around with shorts and slops. Traditional Christmas pudding is ice cream. The days are long and warm. We have over 4,000km of coastline and some of us spend more time in the water than out of it. The sun only goes down at 20:30 in some parts of the country and rise at 04:30 again.Most of us never see snow in our lives, not even in winter. Those of us who hike the high mountains see snow more often than the rest of us. Mostly it is just a thin layer of snow. It is common to walk around without a jersey even in winter during day time.The bad news is that our houses are very poorly insulated with large windows. Double-glazing simply does not exist here. Electricity is expensive and winter evenings can be miserable as it is not much warmer inside our houses than outside. Admittedly, this only last two months most of the time with things warming up in August.August means two very different things: If you are in the North it means veld fires, ugly, dry vegetation and air pollution. In the Cape it is beautiful beyond imagination with millions of flowers, streams everywhere and clear, clear skies.
Since almost all atheists believe in evolution, what do atheists think about racial biological variation among homosapiens?
It's no secret if you were going to divide humans among race, the first and foremost thing you would do is split humans up into two groups: Africans and non-Africans. The reason for this is because when you look at molecular genetic analysis we find the biggest difference between Africans and the non-African groups. If you look at humans from a biological perspective this can easily be explained. Approx. 60,000 years ago homosapiens diverged out of sub saharan Africa. Sub Saharan Africans however did not, and they remained an isolated population near the equator. This was in the tropic biome where there were not any major seasonal changes. Homosapiens were hunter gathers, and since they could survive off the food they acquired day to day, they were not forced to think ahead in terms of planning or long term. This means natural selection selected for athleticism more than intelligence. In temperate biomes, the climate they evolved to was much different. They had to plan ahead days, seasons and years in advance. This eventually lead to the agriculture revolution, which happened near the Mediterranean and the Nile. This changed them from hunter gathers to settlers. They formed agricultural societies which no longer required them to hunt and gather day to day. This hypothesis would seem incredibly reasonable to any biologist. Except if it weren't the species homosapiens... However, this hypothesis is almost completely verified when you examine the racial IQ gaps and brain sizes.
Which of the following paleoclimatic evidence supports the idea of the late Paleozoic super continent in the S?
lithified loess (wind-blown) deposits in the deserts of Chile, Australia, and Africa tillites (rocks formed by glaciers) in South Africa and South America thick sediments in the Amazon and Congo deltas of South America and Africa cold water fossils in the deep-water sediments of the South Atlantic abyssal plain
Why is Australia hot when it’s near Antarctica?
Australia proper is not actually very near to Antarctica. It is at least approximately 3400 kilometers from Hobart, Tasmania to the Antarctic Coast. It is at least approximately 2800 kilometers from Macquarie Island to the Antarctic Coast. These distances are not trivial. Heard Island and the McDonald Islands which are also politically part of Australia are closer at 1750 kilometers away. The catch? The last islands mentioned are uninhabited. Populated areas of South America are far closer to Antarctica. Ushuaia, Argentina sits a mere 1200 kilometers away from the shores of Antarctica, closer than any place in Australia.Australia’s thermal potential is heavily influenced by its proximity to the Tropic of Capricorn, the Equator, its vast continental desert interior cut off from maritime influences, its more populated coastal areas strongly influenced by the Pacific and Indian Oceans as well as a number of seas, and favorable trade winds which bring humidity but also moderation to a number of its subtropical and tropical regions. The country has a variety of climates within its borders so not every place in Australia is hot per se. However, Australia averages higher temperatures than other locations because it largely straddles a zone from the temperate latitudes to the tropics, devoid of most of the more continental climate regimes one might find at low elevations in Northern Asia, much of Northern and Eastern Europe, and North America. In Australia, such climate types would only exist at altitude.