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S - Africa - Casestudy 070821flood
S - Africa - Casestudy 070821flood
AN OVERVIEW
Eugene Poolman
South African Weather Service
OUTLINE OF PRESENTATION
• Occur mostly
along southern and
eastern parts of
the subcontinent
• Caused by
– tropical weather
systems moving
westwards in
summer
– Cold fronts and
cut-off lows in
winter
• In SADC Floods follows
second to epidemics in
frequency
• Third to drought and wind
storms on damage caused
– Wind storms mostly tropical
cyclones, and winter frontal
systems that also cause floods
• R7,000 million flood damage
caused by tropical cyclone
Eline and Gloria in 2000 in
Mozambique
– 3 times their 1999 export
Impact on SA, Mozambique, Zambia