The sups. Diving into icy water. Polar bear plunge weekend is here. The super plungers including our very own Jennifer Franciotti, have been plunging on the hour every hour for 24 hours, doing it to raise money for Special Olympics athletes. Hello, everybody. Welcome to 11 news saturday morning. Im kate amara with john collins. This is one of our favorite saturdays of the year. Yes. Lots of activity going on. Cold at the beach. Comfortable here at the studio, and you can take the plunge, too. Using a digit on the telephone pad. Well explain in a minute. The wind chill out there is 14 degrees. I said if youre wet, is it colder . If your skin is wet, it is going to be colder than if your skin were dry. Patapsco at the bay. The air temperature at the beach is 26. But with that north wind at 13, when you get away from obstructions and everything else, you have an effective wind chill of 14. For those of you going to the public plunges, they start at 10 00, some flurries are in the forecast
Last year Special Olympics South Africa (SOSA), a sport for development NGO, received overwhelming support raising over R120k. A further R 100k was pledged, but those funds are still outstanding.