When summer comes around locals in the Mother City are always unprepared for the heat, each year the waves of hot air and the sweltering sun beats down leaving us feeling a little battered.
If the recent heat wave has got you hot and bothered, have a good laugh at some of the Capetonian reactions to the warm weather:
Cape Town….I’m tired. pic.twitter.com/wvW21myydl
— Masharty (@MashartyTembo) October 24, 2018
Cape Town weather ?? pic.twitter.com/XEZDW5NuKg
— aux cord lord (@Iam_lupe) October 23, 2018
If you’re wearing long pants in #CapeTown today, please know that you have my heart, my sympathy and my utmost respect ???
— Dean Friederich (@Dean_Friederich) October 24, 2018
Cape Town is sooo HOT ? ?
— Anele Msomi (@anelemsomi) October 24, 2018
I think we’re being punished in Cape Town…akushushu maan???
— Zimkhitha Kgomokgadi (@Zimkhitha_Dolly) October 24, 2018
Cape Town I’m coming for you. Can you sort out your premature heat issues before that please.
— Adriaan Bester (@aiBester) October 24, 2018
Cape Town weather today. pic.twitter.com/i0ghyDreVn
— Matthew Clayton (@mattclayton89) October 24, 2018
While everyone in the Northern Hemisphere is enjoying this SPOOOOKYYY MONTH with cool weather.
We’re literally in hell in Cape Town. pic.twitter.com/3FrQZENwCz— KIM TETRIS ?. (@toniicloete) October 24, 2018
Allergies in this weather got me lookin like… ??♂️ #CapeTown pic.twitter.com/HNoO2gJdSS
— Gwalla (@Gwalla89311669) October 23, 2018
Cape Town weather is being mad disrespectful. Even breathing hurts?? this is why I enjoy getting cold?
— Mamsukwini? (@LundiMali) October 23, 2018
I need to get my life together , this weather made me realize I can’t go to hell ?? #CapeTown
— NAEEM ?? (@NaeemHoosain) October 23, 2018
WHO IS IN CHARGE OF CAPE TOWN’S WEATHER? pic.twitter.com/Bg4TynGrM0
— Chief Jastice (@niallmarinus) October 23, 2018
Here is what they dont tell you about having a pool:Weather like cape town is feeling right now is soo hot you dont feel like gettin up to even go to the pool cos the weather makes you so drained of energy pic.twitter.com/Y4wfSwm2fT
— Gary Alfright ?? (@ProjectAuuman) October 23, 2018
My feet and legs are swollen, my make-up is sweating off, my head is on fire because this wig, I’m tired, I’m hot, this Cape Town weather is not the one??? to think it’s all week?
— Mamsukwini? (@LundiMali) October 23, 2018
Cape Town weather today… #capetown #summer #hot #riddick #crematoria pic.twitter.com/0ud7KOLoOD
— Callan Maart (legit) (@CallanMaart) October 23, 2018
complaining about the weather is definitely a sport in Cape Town.
— DUGLY (@Duranovic_) October 23, 2018
Cape Town weather at the moment #MosKakHotOutside pic.twitter.com/lN7FXjPGaC
— Denver Jordaan ??? (@denverjordaan) October 23, 2018
Cape Town’s weather + me right now: pic.twitter.com/xxdXeVkG6L
— Grant Caswell (@TheGrantC) October 23, 2018
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