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News24 | ‘Very scary’: Scientists say record low Cape rainfall part of ‘new norm’

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Heavy rainfall in May might have prevented water shortages in the Western Cape, as Cape Town Airport would go on to record its lowest July rainfall since 1958. Scientists warn that the whiplash between extreme floods and droughts is the “new norm”.

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