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Southern Africa: Southern Africa At Increased Risk of Being Hit By Powerful Category 5 Cyclones, Experts Warn
Daily Maverick, 2 November 2023
Climate experts warn that with the way the southern African region has been warming, a Category 5 tropical cyclone landing could not be ruled out - and that should this happen, the… Read more »
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South Africa: Climate Experts Urge SA to Prepare for Looming El Niño
SAnews.gov.za, 21 June 2023
South African climate experts have called on governments, businesses and communities to increase their awareness of the pending El Niño that is currently manifesting in the… Read more »
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South Africa: Wet Summer Still Predicted for SA's Northeast, Grain Farmers Confident Despite El Niño
Daily Maverick, 2 November 2023
The monthly forecast from the SA Weather Service still sees a wetter-than-usual summer for the northeast region, with a couple of caveats. And even with the re-emergence of El… Read more »
Southern Africa at Risk of Category 5 Cyclones - Experts
Climate experts have warned that, based on current data, the possibility of a Category 5 cyclone in southern Africa caused by to El Niño-related climate conditions should not be ruled out, and that the region is woefully unprepared should it occur, Daily Maverick reports.
Speaking at the the El Niño 2023 Summit hosted at the University of the Western Cape, Professor Erich Fischer - a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report - said that Otis, the first Category 5 cyclone in recorded history to strike Mexico, was an indicator of what may occur in southern Africa.
The warning comes after Cyclone Freddy killed hundreds when it blew across Mozambique, Malawi, Madagascar, South Africa and Zimbabwe in February 2023. Additionally, climate experts in June 2023 called on governments, businesses and communities to increase their awareness of El Niño weather conditions which were confirmed across the central Pacific Ocean at the time.
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In March 2023, more than 600 people died in Malawi after Tropical Cyclone Freddy dumped heavy rain, flooding the southern part of the country, displacing over half a million Read more »
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President Lazarus Chakwera has called on citizens to "roll up their sleeves and get back to work" in an effort to rebuild Malawi, following the devastating effect of Cyclone ... Read more »
A man walks through his village in Nicoadala district, Mozambique, which was flooded as a result of cyclone Freddy (file photo).
