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Joburg braces for severe storm: What precautions to take

Residents of Johannesburg are bracing for a severe storm following a warning by the city’s Disaster Management Centre. The thunderstorm is expected to land…

Track SA’s ‘massive cold front’ with this tool

If you want to see more than a Google weather report for South Africa’s incoming cold front, you can track detailed aspects of the…

Parts of Gauteng lashed by heavy rain, flooding witnessed by social media

Portions of Gauteng have been hit by heavy rains and flooding on Wednesday according to video reports on social media and warnings by the…

SAWS: thunderstorm watch for Johannesburg, Pretoria and surrounds today

We’re used to writing about weather brewing over Cape Town, but now that the cold front season has largely abated, the summer rainfall regions…

The internet (nearly) shames Tropical Storm Karen into submission using memes

Congratulations are perhaps in order, internet. It seems that, for what may be the first time, you’ve managed to shame a potentially devastating storm…

Videos: Hurricane Dorian causes massive damage in the Bahamas

Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas on Monday, wreaking havoc on the island and its people with wind gusts of over 320 km/h, heavy rain…

GIFs of Hurricane Dorian show the fearsome ferocity of a Cat 5 storm

When we first wrote about Hurricane Dorian late last week, the cyclonic storm was packing Category 1-strength winds and bearing down on Puerto Rico….

Hurricane Dorian hits Puerto Rico, could strike Florida as a major storm

Hurricane Dorian, the fourth named storm of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season, is bearing down on Puerto Rico tonight, and could lash Florida by…

Cape Town dam levels surge nearly 20% in a wonderfully wet July

July was a particularly fruitful month for Cape Town and its surface water storage system. On the eve of yet another strong cold front,…

Cape Town sees 80mm of rain in places after first winter cold front

After last night’s cold front which brought wet and windy weather to Cape Town, the South African Weather Service (SAWS) has issued an update…

Cape Town, surrounding mountains brace for ‘heavy’ rain, possible snowfall

Looks like Cape Town’s first heavy rain of the winter months has arrived. On Saturday, the South African Weather Service on Twitter issued a…

Video: This calm and tranquil place is the eye of Hurricane Michael

If you ever wanted to know what it’s like standing beneath the eye of a hurricane, now you know. Hurricane Michael, which just a…

An intense ‘medicane’ is posing a threat to southern Europe

After Florence and Mangkhut, do you need any more proof that the weather is all sorts of crazy this year? If you answered yes,…

These people are getting very wet reporting on Hurricane Florence

Hurricane Florence is just a few kilometres east of North Carolina at the time of writing, but hurricane-force winds have been lashing the US…

Hurricane Florence from space is beautifully frightening

The next few days are going to be rough for those on the east coast of the United States. Hurricane Florence, a major cyclonic…

#Ophelia: Ireland prepares for storm by posting memes on Twitter

The remnants of Hurricane Ophelia is currently battering the south-western coastline of Ireland, but much of the country doesn’t seem to be taking it…

Pictures: Fierce hail storm lashes Johannesburg

Areas in Johannesburg were this afternoon laced by a hail storm that pelted cars, and reportedly damaged a mall in Krugersdorp. The South African…

Hurricane Maria is following in Irma’s footsteps (and she’s strengthening)

As if the Caribbean islands haven’t had enough wind and rain from Hurricane Irma, there’s a new storm about to batter the region. Dubbed…

Google Maps sees Florida’s road traffic spike as Irma draws closer

Google Maps’ traffic overlay is reporting abnormally high traffic movements in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina for a Thursday as residents prepare for Hurricane…

LIVE: webcams document Hurricane Irma’s driving rain, intense wind

When Katrina struck southern United States back in 2005, the social media age only just started gaining momentum. Facebook was two years old, Twitter…

Video: Hurricane Hunters fly through Irma as storm tops 290km/h

Hurricane Irma remains a Category 5 storm swirling away in the Atlantic Ocean, but that hasn’t stopped the Hurricane Hunters from flying through it….

This video shows how quickly Hurricane Harvey became a monster

Hurricane Harvey is a name you’ve probably heard a lot of this weekend, and for good reason. It’s the strongest storm to make landfall…

Hurricane Hilary (seriously) has just formed off the US coast

It’s not often that tropical cyclone names coincide perfectly with political ongoings, but Hurricane Hilary is seemingly one such occasion. Twirling around at over…

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