Updated statistics.

The 2009 statistics have been published on our site. The 2009 fire report is also available for the Midlands and NECF. We will update the members fire plan, cost structure and burning prohibitions as soon as they are available.

 

 

 

Fire season 2010.

2010 Has many challenges. We have come out of a fairly easy fire season in 2009. Climate change is the buzz word. El Nino has certainly affected areas of our country. Our message is simple: Be prepared for anything. Ensure that whatever you did in 2009 is continued. The weather will always be there. Conditions in our Province are definitely changing and before we wipe the !@#$$ out of our eyes we will be in the dry season. Good luck for the season.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2009 Fire season.

The 2009 fire season is now officially done and dusted. On behalf of myself and all my crew, I would like to thank each and all of our members for the excellent support during the season. If it was not for your awareness efforts, we could have had another bad year. Weather conditions were no different to previous years, but we were all far better prepared than in the past.

 

The Elnino forecast does not look good towards the latter part of our rainfall season, so I urge everyone to be carefull.

 

May you all have a wonderful Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

 

Regards the Firestop team.

 

 

Prohibition on the burning of fire breaks.

This is a reminder to everyone out there, that today is the last day of fire break burning. As of Monday, any smoke that is detected should be reported to the nearest authorities as soon as possible.

Weather Links

Fire Weather
Fire Weather (World)

Please click here to view KZN FDIs

General Weather

Saws Home Page - South African Weather Services - Register at SAWS for all short, medium and long term forecasts

National Forecasts - iAfrica
Detailed weather forecast - PMB

Detailed weather forecast - Mthatha

Detailed weather forecast - Elliot

Detailed weather forecast - Richards Bay

Detailed weather forecast - Ulundi

Weather forecast for Howick in KwaZulu-Natal on YR.NO

WIND GURU (Username firestop Password simon)

Richards Bay Refrigeration - many thanks to Richards Bay Refrigeration!

Kobus Botha's weather website - many thanks Kobus for an excellent weather site

Current Fires - fire detection via satellite - courtesy of Eskom

BBC weather forecasts

Current weather - Kwambonambi

Current weather - Howick

Current weather - Richmond KZN

Freemeteo

Accuweather

Weather Underground

Weather charts, satellite images and radar
Synoptic Chart - SAWS

Synoptic Chart Fire Weather - Netfor
Significant Weather Medium Level
Significant Weather high Level
Near real time Sat Images from MODIS (NASA)
Satellite Images - SAWS

Satellite Images - CSAG

South African Radar Images

Durban Radar

Satellite & Radar overlay
Thunderstorm probability chart

CSAG forecasts University of Cape Town
10-Day Precipitation Outlook for Africa Ten day Precipitation Outlook for Africa
10-Day Temperature Outlook for Africa Ten day Temperature Outlook for Africa
Storm Track Tropical Storm Tracking

El-Nino

El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) (Climate Prediction centre)
Fact Sheet on El-Niño
Information on El Nino

Fire report form.

Please take note we have added the Fire Report form under the “Downloads” tag on our website.

Link to updated FDI.

You will have noticed that the link to the FDI on our website still indicates last year’s  information. I am busy working with SAWS to correct this as they have changed their website.

 

In the mean time, you can do the following:

 

Open the SAWS homepage on our site.

In the bottom left hand corner is a “Products” tab. Open that. You do not have to log in to do this.

On the next screen is the “Specialized forecast tab”. Open that.

On the next screen you will see a tab for the “Fire danger forecast”.

Once that is opened you will have access to all the forecasts.