Study reveals South Africa's weather is becoming more extreme

South Africa is experiencing more maximum temperature records than expected – a trend which appears to be accelerating, a study by a University of Pretoria (UP) Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology PhD student Charlotte McBride shows. McBride, of the South African Weather Service (SAWS), had her paper, titled “Trends in probabilities of temperature records in the non-stationary climate of South Africa” published in the International Journal of Climatology.