Human-induced climate change made the extreme rainfall that triggered deadly floods in South Africa in April heavier and twice as likely to happen, a rapid analysis published Friday by the World Weather Attribution project shows.
Parts of South Africa experienced more than 350mm of rainfall in two days, causing destructive floods in KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces, killing at least 435 people and damage to property worth around $1.57 billion. The Port of Durban, Africa's largest port, was forced to halt operations due to the floods, causing disruptions in supply chains.
2 degrees Celsius warmer than temperatures before industrialization, with the climate of the past.They also concluded that an extreme rainfall episode such as the one in April could now be expected to happen about once in every 20 years. "Without human-caused global warming, such an event would only happen once every 40 years, so it has become about twice as common as a result of greenhouse gas emissions," the group said in a statement.
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