Following the hurricanes that have hit parts of North America and Cuba, we find out from Jan Vermeulen, a senior forecaster at the SA Weather Service, what exactly these natural disasters are.

Professor Jasper Knight from the department of geography at University of Witwatersrand talks about what effect climate change has on natural disasters.

The Science Inside is presented by Elna Schütz and DJ Keyez. Our production team is Gabriel Chemhuru with technical production by Kutlwano Serame.

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