Ever blazing: Met Services expects more heatwaves

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Feel the heat: Gaborone has many built up areas which trap heat and cause temperatures to be significantly higher than other less developed places PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

The Meteorological Services department says all the months since summer started in October have experienced heatwaves, a nasty new normal. The balance of the season will test our limits with more of the same. Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI reports

The very definition of heatwave demonstrates the gravity of the situation Batswana have faced every single month since summer started in October.

“For you to say an area is under a heatwave, you have to look at the average temperatures for at least the past 30 years, in that area.

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