South African Weather Service

meteorological service of South Africa

Organization meteorological_service Q7565814

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Summary

South African Weather Service is a meteorological service^[1].

Key Facts

Country: South Africa^[2]
Instance of: public enterprise^[3]
Headquarters location: Pretoria^[4]
Inception: July 15, 2001^[5]
Coordinate location: {'globe': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2', 'altitude': None, 'latitude': -25.856072183784356, 'longitude': 28.184317014552086, 'precision': 1e-08}^[6]
Parent organization or unit: Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment^[7]
Official website: http://www.weathersa.co.za/^[8]
Short name: SAWS^[9]

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served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold

Publication date 31 July emerging0.764 independent sources

evidence “Cape Town has had a drier-than-usual rain season, with the South African Weather Service (SAWS) noting in a statement released on 31 July:” groundup.org.za · read source

Quick Facts

Instance of meteorological service organization, public enterprise

Inception July 15, 2001

Headquarters location Pretoria

Country South Africa

Official website www.weathersa.co.za

Coordinate location 🗺️ -25.856°, 28.184°

Short name SAWS

Properties

Imported from wholeness_audit_2026-05-02

Parent organization or unit Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment

Identifiers (13)

Freebase id /m/09ntd3

Grid id grid.463572.1

Hal structure id 485583

Isni 0000000121539089

Kisti id K000216882

Library of congress authority id no2004012135

Microsoft academic id (discontinued) 2800273996

Openalex id I2800273996

Ringgold id 119176

Ror id 03mef6610

Scilit organization id 54130

Viaf cluster id 127406316

Yale lux id group/84f8630e-07e3-49db-9e9b-5facea3209ca

🌐 Available in 3 languages

enSouth African Weather Service commonsCategory:South African Weather Service frService météorologique d'Afrique du Sud

🏷️ Also known as

en South African Weather Service en Weather SA fr Service météorologique d'Afrique du Sud ja 南アフリカ気象局 zh 南非气象局

🔗 Connections

← Affiliated with 5

Carla-Louise Ramjukadh, Christina M. Botai, Jan Hendrik Stander, Joel O. Botai, Morné Gijben

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[2] ↑ South African Weather Service — country (P17): South Africa. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ South African Weather Service — instance of (P31): public enterprise. weathersa.co.za. weathersa.co.za. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ South African Weather Service — headquarters location (P159): Pretoria. weathersa.co.za. Retrieved 2024-01-13. weathersa.co.za. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ South African Weather Service — inception (P571): July 15, 2001. ROR release v1.19. weathersa.co.za. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ South African Weather Service — coordinate location (P625): {'globe': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2', 'altitude': None, 'latitude': -25.856072183784356, 'longitude': 28.184317014552086, 'precision': 1e-08}. weathersa.co.za. weathersa.co.za. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ South African Weather Service — parent organization or unit (P749): Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment. weathersa.co.za. weathersa.co.za. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ South African Weather Service — official website (P856): http://www.weathersa.co.za/. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ South African Weather Service — short name (P1813): SAWS. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ South African Weather Service is an instance of meteorological service (Q1266087) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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