South Africa Reaches Record December Temperatures on El Nino
- Pretoria hit 41 degrees celsius Monday as heatwave continue
- African country in grip of worst drought for 23 years
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South African cities including Pretoria and Rustenburg reached record-high temperatures for December yesterday as the El Nino weather pattern continued a heatwave in the country.
A weather station in Pretoria, the capital, reached 41 degrees Celsius (105.8 degrees Fahrenheit) Monday, beating the previous December high of 37.3 degrees set in 2003, according to data e-mailed by the South African Weather Service Tuesday. Rustenburg, west of Johannesburg, reached 39.4 degrees, higher than the previous record set in 2008.