Severe thunderstorms are expected in the Northern Cape, while cold and windy conditions are expected across parts of the Western Cape and Eastern Cape.
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The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has issued a yellow level 1 warning for severe thunderstorms in the Northern Cape, while cold and windy conditions are expected across parts of the Western Cape and Eastern Cape.
Residents in affected areas should take precautions and secure loose objects ahead of the windy conditions.
Impact-based warning
Yellow level 1 warning for severe thunderstorms with heavy downpours, leading to localised flooding and damages to susceptible formal/informal settlements and infrastructure, are expected over the central and south-eastern parts of the Northern 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.
SAWS uses the numbers to indicate the likelihood of weather-based impacts occurring. Levels 2 and 6 are high, and level 4 is low.
Weather forecast for today & tomorrow, 24 -25 April 2026.
Cloudy and cold to cool in places over the central & eastern parts of RSA. Otherwise, partly cloudy with isolated to scattered showers & thundershowers possible except over the extreme south-western parts of the country. pic.twitter.com/p6owPt7dSr— SA Weather Service (@SAWeatherServic) April 24, 2026
Advisories
Cold to very cold, wet and windy conditions are expected over the southern parts of Namakwa district municipality in the Northern Cape, the Central Karoo district, Cape Winelands, the western parts of the Overberg district municipalities, as well as the City of Cape Town Metropole municipality in the Western Cape from Sunday into Monday.
Windy conditions can be expected in places over the interior of the Eastern Cape on Sunday, and along the coast on Monday into Tuesday, with cold to very cold conditions in places.
Very rough to high seas can be expected along the coast of the Eastern Cape on Monday into Tuesday.
The weather in your province
Gauteng: Morning fog in places, otherwise cloudy and cool with isolated showers and thundershowers.
Pretoria 10°C — 21°C
Johannesburg 9°C — 19°C
Vereeniging 9°C — 22°C
Mpumalanga: Morning fog in places, otherwise cloudy and cold to cool with isolated showers and thundershowers. It will be warm in the Lowveld.
Limpopo: Morning fog in places, otherwise cloudy and cool with isolated showers and thundershowers.
Polokwane 13°C — 22°C
North West: Morning fog in places, otherwise cloudy and cool, with isolated
showers and thundershowers.
Mahikeng 12°C — 21°C
Vryburg 13°C — 25°C
Free State: Morning fog in places, otherwise partly cloudy and cold to cool, with isolated showers and thundershowers, but scattered in the extreme west.
Bloemfontein 12°C — 20°C
Northern Cape: Fog along the coast in the morning as well as in places in the east where it will be cloudy and windy, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers over the west-central parts, but scattered in the east.
The wind along the coast will be light to moderate westerly to north-westerly.
Upington 17°C — 29°C
Kimberley 13°C — 23°C
Western Cape: Morning fog along the west coast, otherwise fine to partly cloudy and cool to warm but hot in places over the south-eastern parts. Isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers are expected over the eastern parts from the afternoon.
The wind along the coast will be light to moderate westerly to north-westerly, becoming fresh to strong along the south-west coast in the afternoon.
Cape Town 16°C — 22°C
George 15°C — 30°C
Western half of the Eastern Cape: Partly cloudy and warm with isolated afternoon thunderstorms over the interior.
The wind along the coast will be light northerly.
Eastern half of the Eastern Cape: Partly cloudy and warm with isolated afternoon thundershowers in the north and west.
The wind along the coast will be light north-westerly.
Gqeberha 16°C — 30°C
East London 17°C — 29°C
KwaZulu-Natal: Morning and evening fog patches over the interior, otherwise partly cloudy to cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers in the north-west. It will become fine in places in the east in the afternoon.
The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh westerly to north-westerly north of Richards Bay in the morning, otherwise light to moderate northerly to north-easterly, reaching fresh in places.
Durban 18°C — 26°C
Richards Bay 18°C — 28°C
Pietermaritzburg 11°C — 26°C
*This weather report was written with the support of Toqan AI.
