{"id":3568,"date":"2023-09-19T14:18:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T19:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/?p=3568"},"modified":"2023-09-19T14:18:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T19:18:19","slug":"high-waves-pound-south-africas-coastline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/19\/high-waves-pound-south-africas-coastline\/","title":{"rendered":"High Waves Pound South Africa&#8217;s Coastline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3569\" style=\"width: 384px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/big-wave.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3569\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3569\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/big-wave-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/big-wave-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/big-wave-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/big-wave.jpg 877w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Massive Waves Pound Harbour House Restaurant in Kalk Bay\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sapeople.com\/fab-south-african-stuff\/photos-massive-waves-pound-harbour-house-restaurant-in-kalk-bay\/\">Image Link<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">High waves of 7-9.5 meters (23 to 31 feet) crashed into parts of South Africa\u2019s coastline over the weekend, generated by a 952 mb storm low to the south. Buildings and vehicles were damaged and at least two deaths are being connected to the high surf. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Damage was reported from the outskirts of Cape Town in the southwest to as far as the eastern coast of the KwaZulu-Natal province.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3570\" style=\"width: 888px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wave1-1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3570\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3570\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wave1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"878\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wave1-1.jpg 878w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wave1-1-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wave1-1-768x528.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Significant Wave Heights Saturday Sept. 15th<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Farther to the south near the storm center, wave heights were up to 14 meters (46 feet).<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3571\" style=\"width: 796px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wind1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3571\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3571\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wind1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"786\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wind1.jpg 786w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wind1-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wind1-768x631.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Storm Low Saturday 16 Sept. 2023<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/maritime-weather-experts\/\"><b>Ocean Weather Services<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High waves of 7-9.5 meters (23 to 31 feet) crashed into parts of South Africa\u2019s coastline over the weekend, generated by a 952 mb storm low to the south. <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/19\/high-waves-pound-south-africas-coastline\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[182,3,167,158],"tags":[7,165,6,155],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3568"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3574,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions\/3574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}