2015 / 2016 SUMMER Severe drought and soring temperatures with hot uncomfortable wind blowing suffocating dust and hot night temperatures attacked our Free State Province to the unbearable outmost. Our farmer family suffered losses of cattle and bad crops. Weather forcasts were on the top of the hit parade in social media as well as at family visits and meetings. The El Nino condition was blamed for this ugly phenomenon in weather patterns all over the globe. Surely, the damaged ozone layer added to the serious change in weather patterns around the globe. In our home town, Bloemfontein, water restrictions prohibited the top up of swimming pools which limited backwashing as well. We had to buy water from nearby small farmers who's boreholes were still working. Economists predict that we will experience the bad effect of the drought causing price hikes of agricultural produce also for the folowing year. New fruit trees , seeking water with extra deep boreholes and the building up of cattle numbers will take even longer than one year. Really a very bad remembrance of the 2015 / 2016 summer season in our Free Stae Province.
Friday, 22 April 2016
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