Bloemfontein – Residents of the Free State will be forgiven for being slightly confused about waking up at the weekend to winter temperatures and snow - in the middle of October

Aslam Sardiwalla, a meteorologist at the Bloemfontein weather office, says the weather conditions over the past few days have been very odd.

The strange weather was caused by a cold front and extraordinary southerly winds. “The wind was blowing from a very southerly direction. It’s the same kind of wind we usually experience in the middle of winter.”