By Karen Breytenbach

If the predictions of snow in the Western Cape are realised, local snowboarders can head off to the Matroosberg near Ceres this week.

The SA Weather Service warned on its website on Sunday: "Snowfalls are expected over the western mountains of the Northern and Western Cape provinces in the morning, spreading to the Eastern Cape mountains in the evening and over the southern Drakensberg overnight."

The frontal system that moved over the peninsula on Sunday was expected to push across the western escarpment and southwesterly plateau of the Western Cape, bringing freezing weather to the hinterland, especially Ceres, the Matroosberg, Sutherland and Calvinia.
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• This article was originally published on page 3 of Cape Times on August 08, 2005