JOHANNESBURG - KwaZulu-Natal is bracing for more heavy rain, wind and hail as the weather service issues a Level 4 warning.
It comes as hundreds remain displaced and searches continue for two missing in floods in New Hanover.
Storms have repeatedly battered the province as climate change takes hold.
KZN Cooperative Governance says this highlights the need for greater natural disaster resilience.
Professor Guy Midgely from the School for Climate Change at Stellenbosch University said there isn't a weather event in the world that hasn't been affected by climate change.
"There's too much additional energy that we've added into the atmosphere, particularly into the oceans, that has juiced up our climate system and is making it more reactive," he said.
Midgely said climate change is now prevalent everywhere and will affect, to some extent, every weather event we experience.
He added that projections made decades ago showed that the intensity of the El Niño–La Niña cycle would increase in frequency.
“There was a prediction made a couple of years ago that, by the end of the century, these events would double in frequency,” he said.