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The South African Weather Service (SAWS) is reaching out to vulnerable groups in Hammanskraal in the north of Tshwane to equip community leaders about severe weather warnings.
Regional weather forecaster, Gauteng Weather, shared the details of the severe thunderstorms in a post on X.
Weather radars, lightning detection networks, and automatic weather stations are heavily impacted.
Several air quality monitoring stations can't function during the more severe stages of loadshedding.
Since the early 2000s, when the entity started using automated systems, there has been an increase in the number of automated stations to contrast the decline in manual stations.