Disaster planning in South Africa ‘hampered by patchy climate data’

Meeting hears call for additional resources to predict and mitigate floods, tornadoes and drought

Climate data from southern Africa may not be “usable” or “robust” enough for decision-makers who need to plan for extreme weather events, a meeting at Stellenbosch University in South Africa has heard.

The meeting to discuss extreme weather in developing countries preceded a flood that killed 10 people in the Eastern Cape and a tornado that killed 11 people in KwaZulu-Natal in early June.