Didn't that work out in the last 2 cycles of La Niña? I read about drought in South Africa recently but I admittedly know nothing about weather patterns there.
There are some towns and cities which are currently running out of water in the dams and are heading towards day zero (no water in taps). Cities like Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth) are near day zero and a large portion of the Eastern Cape has been experiencing a drought from 2015 to 2020 and then from 2021 to current.
Water tankers are delivering water to various areas in Port Elizabeth as well as numerous smaller towns which have run out of water.
During Cape Town's water crisis we were queuing to collect water from the mountain spring that the local brewery graciously allowed us to collect water from.
Depends on which part of South Africa you're referring to. Cape Town (Western Cape) had a much publicised drought 2015-2018 [1], but that's been broken. This drought was partial attributed to El Niño.
At the moment dams in the Eastern Cape are empty [2]. My mother's taps in Gqeberha are on a trickle only. No idea whether (El|La) Niñ[ao] is responsible here, but maladministration of available water has also been mentioned.
In summary, in ZA we look forward to La Niña, so this article is good news for us.
Thanks, I remember the Cape Town drought with the semi regular mention of Day Zero in articles. I recently read about another Day Zero in the Nelson Mandela Bay region and thought it was a continuation of the earlier drought. I didn't realize the distance and climate differences. Good luck to your mother.
