If it feels hotter, that’s because it is.
New research by a PhD student at the University of Pretoria’s department of geography, geoinformatics and meteorology has found that South Africa is breaking more maximum temperature records than expected, with its climate “becoming more extreme”.
As warming accelerates in the country, high-temperature records are likely to be broken at a higher-than-expected rate, according to Charlotte McBride, the manager of climate data at the South African Weather Service (Saws).
