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| Written by John Olzsewski | |||||
Page 3 of 3 Shortly afterwards, Dr J.J. Taljaard with P.C.L Steyn in a Technical Paper discussing the westward moving crest of the rainfall season across southern Africa noted “daily rainfalls are the bricks of the rainfall mansion”: the proposed path appeared more like a highway. So, while monthly means and all their extensions provide a picture of this rainfall mansion, the individual components, the daily and day-to-day amounts, provide the detail from which a worthy account of the rainfall scene can be built. But where does one start? Shortly after this realization, I contacted Dr. Simon Mason, then head of the Wits. CRG outlining the problem, the answer was that he could not help, because I was the first person whom he knew of who was looking at what he called “the nature of the rainfall”. The English have a phrase “God bless her and all who sail in her!” I felt in the same boat! But the goal was getting our rainfall world into a practical semblance. The process of trial and error was about to start, but with the knowledge every step could well broaden the horizons of our very variable rainfall scene. What this process was to involve and, more potently, what it was to reveal and bring to practical light could not have been envisaged that far back in time: 1995. The various factors, previously undiscovered, were quite enthralling and their portents were/are of equally enthralling value, while keeping in mind the necessity of rainfall identification within an arid climate setting. |
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