South Africa’s national weather service has announced that the
country is experiencing the lowest rainfall and driest summer in more
than 110 years.Adding that the country suffered its driest year on
record in 2015, threatening food security.
According to the weather service, average rainfall was 403 mm, about
a third less than the 608 mm annual average and the driest since
records began in 1904.
The agricultural sector is being hammered by weeks of heat waves
that have scorched grazing land, forcing livestock owners to kill or
sell animals.
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Source: Africanews.
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