Daily SMS Weather Forecasts
We offer a comprehensive DAILY weather forecast and an abbreviated 4-day weather forecast
Simply SMS the following KEYwords to 35010 @R3
(Works for CellC MTN Vodacom)
The request SMS is composed of the Town code PLUS
the letter W for Daily forecasts, or W4 for 4-day forecasts.
| Weather - Daily & 4-day SMS forecasts | ||
| Cape Town - CTW =daily | Cape Town - CTW4 =4-day forecast | |
| Elands Bay - EBW or EBW4 | Langebaan - LAW or LAW4 | |
| Mossel Bay - MBW or MBW4 | George - GEOW or GEOW4 | |
| Jeffreys Bay - JBW or JBW4 | PE - PEW or PEW4 | EL - ELW or ELW4 |
| Durban - DBNW or DBNW4 | KZN S.Coast - SCW or SCW4 | KZN N.Coast - NCW or NCW4 |
| Joburg - JHBW or JHBW4 | Pretoria - PTAW or PTAW4 | Bloemfontein - BFNW or BFNW4 |
| Updated as conditions evolve around 2am 8am 2pm 8pm | ||
1) The location and date 2) Minimum and Maximum Temperature for the day - in °C.
3) Then we divide the forecast into Morning = AM and Afternoon = PM
4) Cloud Cover for the area as a percentage of total sky, and 5) the Total Rain in mm for the period
6) Windspeed and Direction in kph (for knots divide by 1.85 or roughly HALVE it)
| CPT 28Sep Min11/Max26 degC AM= Cloud 3% Rain 0mm Wind SSE 5-11kph PM= Cloud 5% Rain 0mm Wind SE 10-15kph |
Daily SMS 4-Day Weather Forecast Explained
The legend for the values is the first line. Each day is on 1x line - they follow each other
1) Min & Max temperature for the day in °C,
2) The maximum Cloud cover (as a percentage of total sky),
3) Total Rain for the day in millimetres (25.4 mm = inch),
4) Windspeed in kph (for knots divide by 1.85 or roughly HALVE it!)
5) Wind direction.
| CPT Min Max degC-Cloud-Rain-Wind kph 28Sep 11/26 5% 0mm 5-15 SE 29Sep 13/29 0% 0mm 12-18 SE 30Sep 13/22 95% 0.2mm 6-15 WNW 01Oct 7/16 86% 1mm 13-21 SSW |
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