Photos from around the city show delighted residents gallivanting among the snowflakes, which last coated the area in August 2012.
Others on social media referred to the weather as “pure magic,”The snow was caused by an uptick in humidity, cold temperatures, and wind, experts said – while cautioning that it was unlikely to last very long.KIM LUDBROOK/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock“It happens once every 10 years or so. We’re not an area that has a lot of snowfall and that’s partly because in winter we have dry conditions,” University of Witwatersrand professor of physical geography Jennifer Fitchett told the Times.
“We’ve got a strong, high pressure cell which is why we don’t have any or very little rain in winter months. And so don’t have much moisture in the air.” Other parts of the southern hemisphere nation get irregular snow from June through August. But snow falls on Johannesburg only about once every five years, on average, University of the Witwatersrand climatology professor Francois Engelbrecht
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