Winter has come early for the Tiffindell Ski and Alpine resort much to the surprise – and delight – of staff.
The Eastern Cape resort‚ in the Southern Drakensberg‚ experienced its first natural snowfall of the year this weekend and by Monday morning it was snowing again.
“This is a sign of winter arriving early. “The video was taken and it’s still snowing now so we don’t know how deep the snow is‚” the resort’s Tayla Whitehead said.
>https://www.facebook.com/HeraldLIVE/videos/1717748954973264/?t=6“We make our own snow as well‚ but we need it to be a certain temperature and for snow-making you need a certain humidity so this is very exciting for us.”
Whitehead said the snow had come a bit earlier than normal this year‚ starting with a “light dusting of snow covered the mountain of Ben Macdhui‚ on Saturday night”.
“When the month of May has a snowfall‚ we predict a winter skiing season of June‚ July and August with regular snowfalls throughout‚” Whitehead said.
– HeraldLIVE
Eastern Cape ski resort gets a snow blanket
The Eastern Cape resort‚ in the Southern Drakensberg‚ experienced its first natural snowfall of the year this weekend and by Monday morning it was snowing again.
“This is a sign of winter arriving early. “The video was taken and it’s still snowing now so we don’t know how deep the snow is‚” the resort’s Tayla Whitehead said.
“We make our own snow as well‚ but we need it to be a certain temperature and for snow-making you need a certain humidity so this is very exciting for us.”
Whitehead said the snow had come a bit earlier than normal this year‚ starting with a “light dusting of snow covered the mountain of Ben Macdhui‚ on Saturday night”.
“When the month of May has a snowfall‚ we predict a winter skiing season of June‚ July and August with regular snowfalls throughout‚” Whitehead said.
– HeraldLIVE
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