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In a sandy field of half-grown cassava plants, a group of 30 farmers were fighting a plague of locusts with long-handled weeding hoes and improvised brushes.Some had dug a shallow trench five metres long. The rest were sweeping hundreds of thousands of newly hatched locust larvae into it with bunches of leafy twigs...read more Winters in southern Africa extend from mid May to early August - by the experience of the northern hemisphere African winters are extremely mild. Seasons in Africa are not as distinct by contrast with what you'll encounter in Europe or North America. The further you move towards the tropics, the less defined the seasons are. Cape Town is probably the most extreme climate that you will encounter. It is however also unique in Africa because it has a Mediterranean weather system, unlike the rest of the continent. Wildlife enthusiasts generally favour the dry season when temperatures are moderate to high. Game activities are generally limited by the availability of fresh grazing and browsing resources. Rains usually scatter browsers and their persistent predators; dry periods predictably concentrate animals around residual water sources. Migrant birds concentrate their activities in southern Africa during the summer months that usually last from October to March...read more The climate change of South Africa over the past 41 years is analysed using temperature data. There appears to be a general warming trend across the country, however much variability in the climate change is seen between regions in South Africa. This variability could prove important for future climate modelling of the country. A hypothesis is put forward to explain why the annual minimum temperatures of the coastal cities are warming more than the annual maximum temperatures...read more The first South African ozone measurements were made during 1964 until 1972 with Dobson #89 operating from Pretoria. Reinstating South Africa's commitment to the Vienna Convention, the Weather Bureau now operates two Dobson ozone spectrophotometers, one at Irene near Pretoria (25.90S, 28.20E) since 1989, and at Springbok (29.70S, 17.90E) since 1995...read more

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