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COME RAIN OR SHINE!

MOST kids love watching cartoons on TV – but for one little girl her favourite thing was watching the weather report.

She’d tune in every day, staring spellbound as presenters interpreted weather patterns and showed forecasts for the days to come. Weather and the way it affected everything on the planet were little Nomhle Ngwenya’s passions.

On career day at school, when other kids came in doctor’s coats, firefighter outfits or lawyer’s robes, she’d bring a globe and tell everyone she wanted to be a climatologist or meteorologist.

And she has done just that – and then some. Nomhle (27) made history two years ago when she became the youngest PhD graduate at the University of the

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