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East Coast Storm Alert

The image from 1stweather.com showing Cyclone Edzani lurking in the Indian Ocean, 2pm Monday 11 January 2010.

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West Coast Storm Alert

Snapshot of a high-velocity storm at 0200 Saturday 8 August 2009 about 4000km from Cape Town

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Over next 24 hours, the energy dissipates to a 'mere' 45 kt gale, but spread over a massive area, which basically overlays the huge 20 second pulse emitted from the above core fetch surge.

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