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Will AI make weather forecasters redundant? (opens the original)
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At the turn of the century, the talk of the town was Y2K — that was between climate change and Covid-19. Locally, we had a period when the drought and saving water was on everybody’s lips. Lately one cannot turn to any international news channel and not be bombarded with the high crude oil prices, the conflict in the Middle East and the new buzz, the dangers of AI for humanity. We are being warned of scenarios likened to Hollywood blockbusters such as The Matrix and The Terminator. We all rememb
Buffalo thorn branches will not protect you against lightning (opens the original)
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The first week of spring brought with it the first lightning to our metro, a relatively rare phenomenon in this area, especially so early in the season. Our forefathers and old farmers would interpret this as a sure sign of a wet ensuing summer. Unfortunately, modern technology, in the form of model forecasts, does not agree and spoils our fun. We are all hopeful that this sign will negate that dismal seasonal forecast of below average rainfall, but I doubt it. Scientists further claim that beca
Mr Newton’s logic still holds up today (opens the original)
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As I was walking pas the television set, I asked if the images on the screen were a rerun of a Die-Hard film. To my amazement, shock and disbelief it was not. Had I not been watching a reputable news channel last week, I would have thought that the images of the Nepal disaster were from a cheap B-movie production. In true cheap disaster movie fashion, everything seemed so exaggerated, with the houses that were being washed away looking like models on a film set. The reality though was an unimagi
Langkloof still counting cost of devastating floods (opens the original)
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Though I had a wet midyear break with a much-needed road trip, I returned on Wednesday with no further rain in sight. Seems our friends have been proved correct; it will always rain if you go away with the Weather Guru. In a very saturated Langkloof, any rainfall now turns farm roads into mud baths and docile streams into running rivers again, with water still being fed to the overflowing Kouga and Churchill dams. With the countryside beautiful and green, all farm dams full and new dams of water
WEATHER GURU | The good, bad and ugly of natural disasters (opens the original)
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With any natural disaster, such as our recent floods, there is plenty of heartbreak and quite a bit of ugliness from people trying to profit from the misery of others. Sometimes though, some good comes out of these events. The first thing that springs to mind is that it rids river systems of a large amount of invader alien species of trees. Unfortunately, tons landed up at the dam walls, causing further headaches for officials. On the plus side, all waterways are rid of debris accumulated during
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