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Weather calamity warning

Supercomputer modelling predicts category 5 hurricanes from global warming

WHEN it arrives it will announce itself with 200km/h winds, a wall of water 4m high and a trail of death.

This killer will be something South Africans have never seen before – a category five cyclone barrelling down the Mozambique Channel and making landfall as far south as Richards Bay in KwaZulu-Natal.

Not long ago the idea of such a powerful cyclone striking the coast of South Africa was

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