Hurricane Florence is due to smash into America’s east coast shortly, and more than a million people have been evacuated ahead of landfall.
In what looks like a scene straight from ‘The Walking Dead’, a heatwave in Queensland, Australia is so severe that it’s killed over 100,000 bats. Killed them DEAD.
It’s been a particularly cold winter this year, and the cold front that’s just hit the entire country brought a massive chill along with it. Whilst the weather service is not bringing us any good news with regards to the temperatures, a rare thing happened last night. It snowed. And boy did it snow.
You may have heard about the massive storm that hit KZN over the weekend, disrupting pretty much everything. Over 250mm of rain fell on the KZN coast this weekend – causing the Palmiet River to overflow its banks. Residents of Quarry Heights also faced evacuations. Guess what? She’s coming back.
There’s a storm rapidly brewing over a very contentious amendment to the South African Weather Service Bill. The Democratic Alliance has slammed the “undesirable” and “draconian” sections on the grounds that they are a threat to the safety of all South Africans and would create an unfair monopoly over weather forecasting.