Government pumps in cash to reinforce SA’s weather forecasting abilities
The government is allocating R100m over three years to the SA Weather Service to ensure its ability to issue early warnings remains ‘state of the art’
19 May 2022 - 15:10
UPDATED 19 May 2022 - 19:21
The government is allocating the SA Weather Service (SAWS) R100m as it scrambles to ensure that the country’s ability to predict and issue early warnings for severe weather events remains “state of the art”.
Business Day first reported this week that there are concerns about the SAWS’s forecasting capabilities weakening due to funding constraints, vandalism of equipment and the loss of rainfall observation stations, meaning the country could struggle to predict and issue early warnings for severe weather events such as the heavy rains and flooding that devastated KwaZulu-Natal in April...
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