SEA STORM AT STEVE’S ROCK, SHEFFIELD BEACH, BALLITO - DIARY 18TH SEPTEMBER 2023

According to meteorologists and weather scientists, the weather that caused the massive swells along the Western and Eastern Cape Coast was cause by a cold front that swept over the country with its epicentre in a low pressure system way South of the country on Saturday the 16th of September 2023. Coming past this cold front was what is called a Long Fetch. According to Vox Weather Forecast [1], a Long Fetch occurs when constant straight winds blows constantly over a far distance, in this case it was over 6000km’s, and this effectively pushed the ocean in a certain direction causing it to gather a huge volume of water in the land direction. This caused the large swells and raised the ocean level at that point. This was aided by the simultaneous Spring tide. If you go to my channel on the 2007 storms that hit the town of Ballito as well as its suburb Sheffield Beach, you will notice what enormous damage was caused by a similar system at the time.
Some of this enormous energy carried over to the East Coast of South Africa with the persistent wind and we took this video on the 18th of September 2023 to show how this energy still persists to a great extend. I have more videos on storms that came over Steve’s Rock, it happens so every often.
Geographical Positions (Copy and Paste the coordinates into Google Earth Search to see the location):
STEVE’S ROCK GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION: 29.490235°S 31.251659°E
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FURTHER SOURCES:
[1] Vox Weather Forecast - • 19 September 2023 | Vo...