{"id":115981,"date":"2023-10-29T09:44:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T09:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=115981"},"modified":"2023-10-29T09:44:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T09:44:43","slug":"south-africas-destructive-storm-surges-geoscientist-reveals-the-three-factors-that-drove-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=115981","title":{"rendered":"South Africa\u2019s destructive storm surges: geoscientist reveals the three factors that drove them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A series of powerful tidal surges battered coastal areas in South Africa\u2019s Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces over the weekend of 16 September. One person died; cars, homes and businesses were damaged. The Conversation Africa asked Jasper Knight, a geoscientist who researches coastal processes&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkofthetown.co.za\/2023\/09\/22\/south-africas-destructive-storm-surges-geoscientist-reveals-the-3-factors-that-drove-them\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=south-africas-destructive-storm-surges-geoscientist-reveals-the-3-factors-that-drove-them\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of powerful tidal surges battered coastal areas in South Africa\u2019s Western Cape, Eastern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/115981-south-africas-destructive-storm-surges-geoscientist-reveals-the-three-factors-that-drove-them.jpg",640,288,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/115981-south-africas-destructive-storm-surges-geoscientist-reveals-the-three-factors-that-drove-them-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/115981-south-africas-destructive-storm-surges-geoscientist-reveals-the-three-factors-that-drove-them-300x135.jpg",300,135,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/115981-south-africas-destructive-storm-surges-geoscientist-reveals-the-three-factors-that-drove-them.jpg",640,288,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/115981-south-africas-destructive-storm-surges-geoscientist-reveals-the-three-factors-that-drove-them.jpg",640,288,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/115981-south-africas-destructive-storm-surges-geoscientist-reveals-the-three-factors-that-drove-them.jpg",640,288,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/115981-south-africas-destructive-storm-surges-geoscientist-reveals-the-three-factors-that-drove-them.jpg",640,288,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/115981-south-africas-destructive-storm-surges-geoscientist-reveals-the-three-factors-that-drove-them.jpg",640,288,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/115981-south-africas-destructive-storm-surges-geoscientist-reveals-the-three-factors-that-drove-them.jpg",640,288,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/115981-south-africas-destructive-storm-surges-geoscientist-reveals-the-three-factors-that-drove-them-590x288.jpg",590,288,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}