By Akani Nkuna
The South African Weather Service is discussing ways to improve disaster preparedness by making early warnings more accessible and understandable.
The issuing of early warnings for weather hazards is an essential step in disaster risk reduction.
“There are events where we are very successful [in mitigating the hazards when issuing early warning]. For instance, if you remember in 2017, those heavy floods in Durban the warning was given three days before.
“Of course, the challenge is that depending on the magnitude of the impact, it was said that the amount of time was little, but we tried. There are those events where we will actually issue way in advance,” said SAWS meteorologist Puseletso Mofokeng.
The Government Communication and Information System and the SAWS convened a roundtable discussion in Centurion to address extreme weather patterns. They focused on the Early Warnings for All (EW4LL) initiative to enhance public
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