Climate change worsens rainfall that caused devastating floods in South Africa: Study

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and caused an estimated US$1.57 billion in property damage. More than 350mm fell in two days in some places and caused extremely damaging floods in KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces.

Durban, the nation's third largest city, was badly affected by floods and landslides that hit the poorest communities the hardest.

"Most people who died in the floods lived in informal settlements. So again we are seeing how climate change disproportionately impacts the most vulnerable people," said Dr Friederike Otto, of the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London. But with nearly 1.2 deg C of warming since pre-industrial times, the evidence is much stronger now, along with the increase in extreme events, from the recent and relentless heatwave in India and Pakistan to repeated flooding along Australia's east coast.So how does WWA reach its conclusions?

"The modern approach is to use several definitions and calculate results for each," WWA says."This gives scientists an idea of how event definition affects the results and enables them to tailor the study towards an aspect of the event that is most linked to the impacts."

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