Despite higher rainfall, 2022 was SA's fourth-hottest year on record | Business

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Despite above-normal levels of rainfall, 2022 is South Africa's fourth hottest year on record, data from the South African Weather Service shows. | News24_Business

Heavy rainfall escalated into flooding in KwaZulu-Natal last year, but 2022 was still the fourth hottest year on record.Despite above-normal rainfall, 2022 is South Africa's fourth hottest year on record.With El Nino coming up, 2023 is set to be a warmer, and drier year.Despite above-normal levels of rainfall, 2022 is South Africa's fourth-hottest year on record, data from the South African Weather Service shows.

The country generally experienced a warm year, amid higher levels of rainfall brought on by La Niña. La Niña is a weather event in the Pacific Ocean which impacts rainfall, and in southern Africa, it is associated with higher rainfall. "This event … is considered as one of the major damaging weather events of 2022," the SA Weather Service report read.The SA Weather Service noted that some regions remained dry and hot, including some parts of the Eastern Cape, Northern Cape and Western Cape.

In March, the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University indicated that the La Niña is winding down, with El Niño to follow later this year. El Niño is associated with increased temperatures and low rainfall, explained independent climatologist Dave Ogier. In South Africa, the day-zero drought in Cape Town a few years back resulted due to an intense El Niño, Ogier pointed out.

 

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_Business It appears then that the so called global warming started way back.

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