{"id":161,"date":"2018-08-31T15:36:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T15:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/?p=161"},"modified":"2018-08-31T15:36:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T15:36:57","slug":"summer-and-spring-historical-mapped-thi-is-business-as-usual-leading-south-africa-to-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/2018\/08\/31\/summer-and-spring-historical-mapped-thi-is-business-as-usual-leading-south-africa-to-doom\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer and Spring Historical mapped THI. Is &#8216;business as usual&#8217; leading South Africa to doom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Spring Historical and Future THI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-165\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/08\/THI_SON-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/08\/THI_SON-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/08\/THI_SON-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/08\/THI_SON-1024x725.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/08\/THI_SON-624x442.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-163\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/08\/IMG_6845-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/08\/IMG_6845-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/08\/IMG_6845-768x715.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/08\/IMG_6845-1024x953.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/08\/IMG_6845-624x581.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/08\/IMG_6845.jpg 1726w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Maps illustrating THI based on highest THI index values. as per station it shows that the Limpopo province is the most heat vulnerable region in South Africa. overall the Northern parts of the country show the most vulnerability to heat stress.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summer Historical and Future THI\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-165\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/08\/THI_SON-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/08\/THI_SON-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/08\/THI_SON-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/08\/THI_SON-1024x725.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/08\/THI_SON-624x442.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-166\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/08\/IMG_6844-1-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/08\/IMG_6844-1-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/08\/IMG_6844-1-768x629.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/08\/IMG_6844-1-1024x839.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/08\/IMG_6844-1-624x511.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Based on overall values seasonal values- THI Index values did manage to get to the alert category of the LWSI (Livestock Weather Safety Index). Showing that the daily values were quite high historically and if &#8220;business as usual&#8221; continues, Food Security will be questionable and rural livelihoods will be at risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring Historical and Future THI Maps illustrating THI based on highest THI index values. as per station it shows that the Limpopo province is the most heat vulnerable region in&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/2018\/08\/31\/summer-and-spring-historical-mapped-thi-is-business-as-usual-leading-south-africa-to-doom\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}