Disruptive snowfall leading to loss of vulnerable livestock, disruption of traffic due to icy roads and possible closure of mountain passes is expected over the Karoo Hoogland municipality of the Northern Cape and in places over the Cape Winelands District of the Western Cape, according to the South African Weather Service.
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A series of intense cold fronts are expected to batter the Western Cape, bringing very cold, wet and windy conditions with snow on high-lying areas.
Impact-based warnings
Orange level 8 warning: Disruptive rainfall, leading to flooding of roads, bridges and formal and informal settlements, mudslides, and danger to life due to fast-flowing rivers, is expected over the mountainous regions of the Drakenstein, Stellenbosch, the western parts of the Theewaterskloof, Breede Valley and Witzenberg local municipalities of the Western Cape.
Orange level 6 warning: Disruptive rainfall, leading to flooding of roads, low-lying bridges, and formal and informal settlements, is expected over the West Coast, Cape Winelands, the City of Cape Town, and western parts of the Overberg Districts of the Western Cape.
Orange level 6 warning: Damaging winds and waves leading to danger to navigation at sea and damage to coastal infrastructure are expected along the coast between Lambert’s Bay and Plettenberg Bay.
Orange level 5 warning: Damaging interior winds, leading to damage to formal and informal settlements, power interruptions, and the closure of some routes due to falling trees, are expected over parts of the Cape Winelands and the western parts of the Central Karoo Districts of the Western Cape.
Yellow level 4 warning: Damaging winds and waves leading to danger to navigation at sea are expected along the coast between Alexander Bay and Lambert’s Bay.
Yellow level 2 warning: Damaging winds leading to localised damage of informal settlements, falling trees and localised problems for high-sided vehicles on prone routes are expected over parts of the West Coast, City of Cape Town, Overberg and Central Karoo Districts, as well as the Kannaland Municipality of the Western Cape, including the southern Namakwa District of the Northern Cape.
Yellow level 2 warning: Disruptive snowfall, leading to the loss of vulnerable livestock, disruption of traffic due to icy roads, and possible closure of mountain passes, is expected over the Karoo Hoogland municipality of the Northern Cape and in places over the Cape Winelands District of the Western Cape.
Yellow level 2 warning: Disruptive rainfall leading to localised flooding of low-lying bridges, and formal as well as informal settlements, is expected over the northern parts of the West Coast, eastern parts of the Cape Winelands and Overberg Districts of the Western Cape.
In the SAWS’s colour-coded weather warning system, yellow indicates a moderate risk of impact that requires caution and awareness, while orange indicates that a higher-risk impact is expected, requiring increased attention and preparation.
The SAWS uses the numbers to indicate the likelihood of weather-based impacts occurring. Levels 2 and 6 are high, and level 4 is low. Level 8 indicates a low likelihood of weather-based impacts occurring but severe impact.
Advisories
Very cold conditions are expected in places over Chris Hani and Joe Gqabi municipalities of the Eastern Cape.
A series of intense cold fronts are expected to affect the western parts of the Western Cape and southern Namakwa District of the Northern, from Sunday to Tuesday.
The public and small stock farmers are advised that very cold, wet and windy conditions, as well as snow in the high-lying areas, are expected.
The weather in your province
Gauteng: Morning frost in places, otherwise fine and cool to cold.
Pretoria 6°C — 21°C
Johannesburg 3°C — 18°C
Vereeniging 3°C — 19°C
Mpumalanga: Frost in places on the Highveld in the morning, otherwise fine and cool but warm in places in the Lowveld where it will be misty in places at first.
Mbombela 9°C — 25°C
Ermelo 1°C — 17°C
Emalahleni 2°C — 18°C
Standerton 0°C — 16°C
Skukuza 11°C — 28°C
Limpopo: Frost in places in the south-western parts in the morning, otherwise fine and cool to warm.
Polokwane 6°C — 22°C
Phalaborwa 12°C — 28°C
Tzaneen 9°C — 26°C
Musina 12°C — 28°C
Lephalale 7°C — 27°C
Mokopane 7°C — 24°C
North West: Fine and cool.
Klerksdorp 4°C — 21°C
Potchefstroom 4°C — 19°C
Mahikeng 6°C — 20°C
Rustenburg 6°C — 20°C
Vryburg 5°C — 21°C
Free State: Morning fog in the extreme east, otherwise fine and cool but cold around Lesotho border.
Bloemfontein 3°C — 18°C
Welkom 4°C — 19°C
Bethlehem 1°C — 15°C
Northern Cape: Morning fog in places, otherwise fine and cool to cold. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly to south-easterly.
Upington 7°C — 22°C
Kimberley 5°C — 19°C
De Aar 4°C — 17°C
Alexander Bay 9°C — 20°C
Springbok 7°C — 17°C
Calvinia 2°C — 21°C
Sutherland -1°C — 16°C
Western Cape: Morning fog in places in the north, otherwise fine and cool. The wind along the coast will be moderate southerly to south-westerly, but south-easterly along the south-west coast.
Cape Town 13°C — 20°C
Vredendal 6°C — 21°C
Riversdale 7°C — 21°C
George 10°C — 20°C
Worcester 6°C — 22°C
Beaufort West 6°C — 21°C
Oudtshoorn 6°C — 21°C
Western half of the Eastern Cape: Morning fog in places in the west, otherwise fine and cool, but cold in places in the north. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh south-westerly.
Eastern half of the Eastern Cape: Fine and cool, but cold in the north. The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong south-westerly.
Gqeberha 13°C — 20°C
Makhanda 9°C — 21°C
Cradock 4°C — 21°C
Graaff-Reinet 4°C — 22°C
East London 13°C — 22°C
Port St Johns 10°C — 22°C
Mthatha 6°C — 21°C
Komani 5°C — 18°C
Qonce 9°C — 21°C
KwaZulu-Natal: Morning fog in places, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm, but cold in the extreme south-west, with isolated morning showers and rain along the coast and the north-east, except the extreme south coast. It will be fine in the west. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh south-westerly, but south-easterly in the north.
Durban 17°C — 24°C
Richards Bay 16°C — 25°C
Pietermaritzburg 7°C — 22°C
Ladysmith 3°C — 21°C
*This weather report was written with the support of Toqan AI.
