The weather service is predicting disruptive rain, winds and waves in the Eastern Cape.
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Cold conditions are expected for most parts of the country, but disruptive rain, winds and waves persist in the Eastern Cape, according to the South African Weather Service (SAWS).
Impact-based warnings
Orange Level 8 warning: Disruptive rain leading to widespread flooding and prolonged disruptions to settlements, roads, and bridges is expected over Koukamma, Kouga Municipalities, and Nelson Mandela Bay Metro in the Eastern Cape.
Yellow Level 2 warning: Disruptive rain leading to localised flooding of susceptible settlements or roads and bridges, as well as localised disruption due to sinkholes/blocked drainage systems, is expected over the West Coast and the adjacent interior of the Eastern Cape.
Yellow Level 2 warning: Damaging waves leading to damage to coastal infrastructure, disruption of harbours/coastal routes, medium/large vessels dragging anchor/breaking mooring lines and disruptions to the beachfront activities are expected along the Eastern Cape coast.
Yellow Level 2 warning: Damaging winds and waves leading to damage to coastal infrastructure, disruption of harbours, medium/large vessels dragging anchor/breaking mooring lines and disruptions to beachfront activities are expected along the KwaZulu-Natal coast.
In the SAWS’ 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.
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 occuring but severe impact.
Advisories
Very cold, windy and wet conditions are expected over the western parts of the country. The public and all small stock farmers are advised that a combination of snow, gale-force winds, heavy rain, flooding, very cold conditions, and very rough seas is expected from Sunday until Tuesday.
The weather in your province
Gauteng: Fine and cold, but cool in the extreme north.
Pretoria: 5°C — 17°C
Johannesburg: 4°C — 16°C
Vereeniging: 3°C — 15°C
Mpumalanga: Fine and cold to cool, but warm in places in the Lowveld.
Mbombela: 8°C — 26°C
Ermelo: 0°C — 15°C
Emalahleni: 2°C — 18°C
Standerton: 2°C — 15°C
Skukuza: 7°C — 28°C
Limpopo: Partly cloudy in the Western Bushveld in the morning, otherwise fine and cool to warm.
Polokwane: 6°C — 23°C
Phalaborwa: 13°C — 29°C
Tzaneen: 13°C — 28°C
Musina: 13°C — 29°C
Lephalale: 10°C — 26°C
Mokopane: 5°C — 25°C
North West: Fine and cold to cool, becoming partly cloudy in the southern parts in the afternoon.
Klerksdorp: 4°C — 16°C
Potchefstroom: 4°C — 15°C
Mahikeng: 3°C — 17°C
Rustenburg: 5°C — 18°C
Vryburg: 3°C — 16°C
Free State: Morning fog patches in the south and along the Lesotho border, otherwise partly cloudy to cloudy and cold.
Bloemfontein: 2°C — 13°C
Welkom: 5°C — 14°C
Bethlehem: 3°C — 12°C
Northern Cape: Morning fog patches in places, otherwise partly cloudy and cold to cool but cloudy in the south-eastern parts. It will be fine in the extreme northern parts.
The wind along the coast will be light to moderate southerly to south-easterly.
Upington: 6°C — 18°C
Kimberley: 3°C — 14°C
De Aar: 4°C — 12°C
Alexander Bay: 11°C — 22°C
Springbok: 7°C — 17°C
Calvinia: 2°C — 17°C
Sutherland: -1°C — 13°C
Western Cape: Cloudy in the morning with isolated showers and rain along the extreme east coast, otherwise partly cloudy and cold to cool.
The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly to south-easterly, but light to moderate south-westerly to southerly along the south coast.
Cape Town: 13°C — 20°C
Vredendal: 10°C — 22°C
Riversdale: 10°C — 18°C
George: 10°C — 16°C
Worcester: 7°C — 19°C
Beaufort West: 7°C — 14°C
Oudtshoorn: 8°C — 16°C
Eastern Cape: Cloudy and cold across the province. The western half will experience isolated to scattered showers and rain except in the northern parts, while the eastern half will see light morning rain in places along the west coast. Morning fog patches are expected in the extreme north of the eastern half.
The wind along the coast will be strong westerly to south-westerly, moderating in the evening.
Gqeberha: 13°C — 16°C
Makhanda: 10°C — 15°C
Cradock: 4°C — 17°C
Graaff-Reinet: 3°C — 16°C
East London: 14°C — 18°C
Port St Johns: 13°C — 19°C
Mthatha: 6°C — 19°C
Komani: 4°C — 14°C
Qonce: 10°C — 17°C
KwaZulu-Natal: Fine in the west, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm, becoming cloudy in the east with isolated evening showers and rain.
The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly to south-westerly, but south-easterly in the north. It will be strong at times in the south.
Durban: 18°C — 23°C
Richards Bay: 15°C — 23°C
Pietermaritzburg: 8°C — 20°C
Ladysmith: 6°C — 19°C
*This weather report was written with the support of Toqan AI.
