{"id":131400,"date":"2016-07-26T10:04:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T08:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=131400"},"modified":"2016-07-26T10:13:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T08:13:35","slug":"watch-tornado-touches-down-in-joburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/131400\/watch-tornado-touches-down-in-joburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Tornado touches down in Joburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several videos have emerged of a tornado touching down in Magaliesburg, just outside Johannesburg on Monday amid a cold spell that has gripped the country.<\/p>\n<p>A cold front has meant snow in three provinces since the weekend, while Gauteng experienced high winds, out-of-season rainfall, and temperatures close to freezing.<\/p>\n<p>Mario Ferreira, a resident in Magaliesburg, posted a video of a tornado touching down in the remote area on Monday afternoon at approximately 15h30.<\/p>\n<p>The video is just under a minute long, and Ferreira noted that the tornado touched down twice before he was able to begin recording.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TvQRxgEUecY\" width=\"640\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Amin Hassam, who was at Koesterfontein Farm Glamping, Magaliesburg, shared a video on Facebook, showing the tornado touching down.<\/p>\n<p>Hassam&#8217;s video can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mohamed.hassam\/videos\/vb.1527559348\/10210081895033719\/?type=2\">found on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmohamed.hassam%2Fvideos%2F10210081895033719%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=640\" width=\"640\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on South Africa<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/87398\/detecting-the-next-mega-earthquake\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Detecting the next mega earthquake<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/64908\/joburg-hit-by-5-3-magnitude-earthquake\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Joburg hit by 5.3 magnitude earthquake<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several videos have emerged of a tornado touching down in Magaliesburg, just outside Johannesburg, Gauteng on Monday amid a cold spell that has gripped the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":131414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-131400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131400"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131412,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131400\/revisions\/131412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}