{"id":183841,"date":"2021-03-19T00:59:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T22:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/pasha-101-two-researchers-unpack-extreme-temperatures-in-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2021-03-19T00:59:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T22:59:47","slug":"pasha-101-two-researchers-unpack-extreme-temperatures-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/pasha-101-two-researchers-unpack-extreme-temperatures-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasha 101: Two researchers unpack extreme temperatures in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pasha-101-two-researchers-unpack-extreme-temperatures-in-south-africa.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Extreme heat and extreme cold can both have an impact on human health. With a changing climate, these events are set to occur more often. They are also becoming increasingly difficult to predict. <\/p>\n<p>Extreme heat stress can result in heatstroke and can affect people\u2019s cardiovascular health. There are significant health concerns related to extreme heat events, particularly when people aren\u2019t prepared for them. Extreme cold temperatures present a different set of challenges. For example, they can affect low income communities who live in vulnerable housing. <\/p>\n<p>Extreme temperatures can also affect plants and animals.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s episode of Pasha, Jennifer Fitchett, an associate professor of physical geography at the University of the Witwatersrand, and Adriaan van der Walt, a lecturer in geography at the University of the Free State, discuss their research on these extreme heat and cold events and why it\u2019s important to try to track them.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Photo:<\/strong><br \/>\u201cHeat in South Africa concept\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-illustration\/heat-south-africa-concept-3d-rendering-1445584442\">Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Music:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cHappy African Village\u201d by John Bartmann, found on <a href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/John_Bartmann\/Public_Domain_Soundtrack_Music_Album_One\/happy-african-village\">FreeMusicArchive.org<\/a> licensed under <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/\">CC0 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmbient guitar X1 &#8211; Loop mode\u201d by frankum, found on <a href=\"https:\/\/freesound.org\/people\/frankum\/sounds\/393520\/\">Freesound<\/a> licensed under <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/\">Attribution License.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/africa\/\">Source: The Conversation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme heat and extreme cold can both have an impact on human health. With a changing climate, these events are set to occur more often. They are also becoming increasingly difficult to predict. Extreme heat stress can result in heatstroke and can affect people\u2019s cardiovascular health. There are significant health concerns related to extreme heat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[3257],"class_list":{"0":"post-183841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-mypr","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pasha-101-two-researchers-unpack-extreme-temperatures-in-south-africa.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}