I have always said we are lucky in SA with our weather not having extreme type of weather condition but seems things are changing this side. Now I have not really heard of us having tornadoes before but reading this seem we have.
Johannesburg - Two children were killed and more than 200 people injured when storms wreaked havoc across parts of country, but a forecaster on Monday said it was not unusual weather.
Tornadoes in spring and summer were not uncommon, the SA Weather Service's Puseletso Mofokeng said.
"It happens from time to time. Over the past three years it has happened on a yearly basis."
He explained that some tornadoes happened in unpopulated areas.
"It's only when they reach cities that we notice them."
Tornadoes were more common in the central Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and the Free State. He explained that tornadoes were a by-product of a mesocyclone (a small low pressure system) which caused a severe storm. These storms, in their extreme form, could result in tornadoes.
Mofokeng said the system which caused the severe weather over the weekend would shift to Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal on Monday. However Gauteng could still expect rain.
An eight-year-old child died and 166 people were injured when a tornado hit Duduza outside Nigel, south-east of Johannesburg on Sunday, Ekurhuleni spokesperson Justice Mohale said.
A nine-year-old boy was killed in Ficksburg early on Monday morning when the wall of his house collapsed on him during a storm in the Free State town, police spokesman Captain Phumelelo Dlamini said.
The storm hit around 02:00 and destroyed Jama Mokhekhe's house, seriously injuring other members of his family.
In the area, 42 people were injured and 122 RDP houses and shacks destroyed.
The injured were taken to hospitals in Bethlehem and Bloemfontein.
On Sunday evening two people were killed by lightning in KwaZulu-Natal’s Estcourt area, the provincial co-operative governance department said.
"Two people were killed by lightning and eight have been admitted to hospital," department spokesperson Vernon Mchunu said.
MEC Nomusa Dube would visit the area on Monday morning to assess the damage and hand lightning conductors to residents.
Source - News 24
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[video=youtube;FYxjF3Qw6Wk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYxjF3Qw6Wk[/video]
Johannesburg - Two children were killed and more than 200 people injured when storms wreaked havoc across parts of country, but a forecaster on Monday said it was not unusual weather.
Tornadoes in spring and summer were not uncommon, the SA Weather Service's Puseletso Mofokeng said.
"It happens from time to time. Over the past three years it has happened on a yearly basis."
He explained that some tornadoes happened in unpopulated areas.
"It's only when they reach cities that we notice them."
Tornadoes were more common in the central Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and the Free State. He explained that tornadoes were a by-product of a mesocyclone (a small low pressure system) which caused a severe storm. These storms, in their extreme form, could result in tornadoes.
Mofokeng said the system which caused the severe weather over the weekend would shift to Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal on Monday. However Gauteng could still expect rain.
An eight-year-old child died and 166 people were injured when a tornado hit Duduza outside Nigel, south-east of Johannesburg on Sunday, Ekurhuleni spokesperson Justice Mohale said.
A nine-year-old boy was killed in Ficksburg early on Monday morning when the wall of his house collapsed on him during a storm in the Free State town, police spokesman Captain Phumelelo Dlamini said.
The storm hit around 02:00 and destroyed Jama Mokhekhe's house, seriously injuring other members of his family.
In the area, 42 people were injured and 122 RDP houses and shacks destroyed.
The injured were taken to hospitals in Bethlehem and Bloemfontein.
On Sunday evening two people were killed by lightning in KwaZulu-Natal’s Estcourt area, the provincial co-operative governance department said.
"Two people were killed by lightning and eight have been admitted to hospital," department spokesperson Vernon Mchunu said.
MEC Nomusa Dube would visit the area on Monday morning to assess the damage and hand lightning conductors to residents.
Source - News 24
[video=youtube;1zZVtvlb9pw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zZVtvlb9pw[/video]
[video=youtube;FYxjF3Qw6Wk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYxjF3Qw6Wk[/video]
I would just not survive something like that when we reach around 8c I think it is the end of the world 
