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You are here: Home / News / A cut-off low just dumped nearly a foot of rain on South Africa’s Cape in three days — flash floods forced more than 2,000 people to flee their homes

A cut-off low just dumped nearly a foot of rain on South Africa’s Cape in three days — flash floods forced more than 2,000 people to flee their homes

22 May 2026 by CapeTownNewsReader

Between 10 and 14 May 2026, a cut-off low pressure system parked itself over South Africa’s Western Cape and refused to move. Over three days it wrung out close to 300 millimeters of rain, roughly a …Read More at Source

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