The roads have become a battleground, where the stormwater drain system’s failures have wreaked havoc, forcing multiple lane closures on the N1 and plunging the city into a week of massive traffic chaos.
On Sunday, two men went missing when they had chased after a soccer ball that landed in the water.
A good reminder not to brave the ocean’s waves during this time of year, and if you do, have the NSRI’s nifty, and potentially life-saving, app at the ready.
This looks like a scene from the Narnia movies.
An 18-member crew had to be rescued from a life raft after their cargo ship was stricken by strong winds and 3.5 meters swells about 60 nautical miles west of Doringbaai.
At least 15,000 people had been affected, according to an assessment on Monday.
Although scary, aircraft are struck by lightning once or twice a year.
The ability to create and share vocal labels, such as names, has been considered uniquely human…until now.
The first time that this large wave anomaly was spotted between Antarctica and southern Africa was weird, but the fact that it has been seen time and time again in the same month is really deepening the mystery.
Recently climate change has been warming the waters in the region, intensifying storms and leading to flooding well beyond what the island can manage.
A number of rescue operations recovered people safely from buildings, residences and vehicles.
While turbulence fatalities are rare, the overall bumpiness in the air is becoming more frequent, and severe.
There are certain sites that look almost like a milky orange juice.
Night skies were lit up by these bright colour lights in locations where they don’t normally shine as a severe solar storm supercharged the phenomenon.
Now we know why billionaires are building bunkers.
Hiking trails along Table Mountain remain closed due to the fire burning high up on the slopes.
A string of twisters that wreaked havoc across Nebraska on April 26 shows just how terrifying they can become.
TMNP cautioned hikers and runners to avoid some areas within the Table Mountain National Park area affected by the fires caused by the lightning from Saturday.
The massive ‘black hole’ weather anomaly that materialised over Cape Town in the early hours has left many puzzled.
Nearly 100 mm of rain fell in just 12 hours on Tuesday, partly thanks to the UAE’s cloud seeding operations.
A couple of vehicles, including trucks, were launched off the N1 bridge just before the Huguenot Tunnel outside Paarl, roofs split and shattered in the wind blowing over Gordon’s Bay, while trees broke and debris was flung into the roads all over the rest of the Western Cape this weekend.
Freezing fans were allowed to bring heated blankets into the stadium, and small pieces of cardboard to place under their feet on the cold concrete.
It must have been a sight to behold watching all the people come together to help each other.
“Hovered for quite a while next to a lightning cloud which was also weird because there was only lightning in this one particular cloud, no thunder no storm anywhere else. Then this object rose straight up and hovered there..”
Although scientists are learning more with every eruption, there’s still a great deal of uncertainty for Iceland as a new volcanic era begins.
Below-average rainfall since 2020 has Spain’s Catalonia region bracing for severe water restrictions as dams and reservoirs run dry.
The managing director of Working on Fire said that 2023 was “the year of the planet burning, both figuratively and literally”.
Shocking footage is making its way around social media, showing steam rising from the large gashes in roads and sidewalks.
On Monday, parts of Johannesburg were ravaged by an extreme hailstorm while a tornado threatened residents in Standerton in Mpumalanga.
Footage of the devastation left behind by the recent Cape storms has been flooding our feeds for the last few days, but as we count the costs of nature’s tantrum, likely and unlikely heroes are emerging from the deluge of bad news.