Strengths
•South Africa has 22 inland regional
offices which play a role in weather and climate science community outreach
•Verified social media accounts to keep the nation aware of any significant weather related
events
•Timely seasonal forecast which are now also translated to indigenous languages
•Constant improvement on the archiving/cataloguing
of notable historical extreme events
•Efforts in the development of an Integrated Climate driven multi
hazard early warning system, which can assist with the following
1. Improved
risk knowledge and risk awareness
2. Improved monitoring and forecasting of identified cli-mate risks and hazards
3. Wider dissemination of early warnings through various media platforms to user
groups and vulnerable groups within the district municipalities
4. Effective response capabilities and levels of preparedness to anticipated
climate risks and hazards.
•Communication challenges
•Network challenges
•Loadshedding leading
to loss of data
•Capacity challenges owing to the
increasing volume of data requests – Many people are now ‘weather-smart’ and
tend to be more interested
•No formal platform for provider-user interactions
•Lack of spares to keep our infrastructure running at their optimal capacity
•Lack of long term data for most
parameters (except Temp and Rain), making it difficult to study their
climatology and long term change