Severe thunderstorms with heavy rain, small hail and excessive lighting are expected over eastern parts of Northern Cape, and western parts of Free State.
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The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has warned of extreme weather in parts of the Northern Cape and Free State with severe thunderstorms, heavy rain, and damaging winds in the region, which could lead to flooding.
Further weather warnings have also been issued for parts of the North West and Eastern Cape, as well as KwaZulu-Natal.
Impact-based warnings
Orange level 5 warning: Severe thunderstorms with heavy downpours leading to flooding of roads, settlements and low-lying areas, as well as damaging winds, large amounts of small hail and excessive lighting are expected over eastern parts of Northern Cape, and western parts of the Free State.
Yellow level 2 warning: Severe thunderstorms with heavy downpours leading to localised flooding of susceptible roads, settlements, low-lying bridges/areas, as well as possible strong damaging winds, hail, and excessive lightning over the western parts of the Northern Cape, south to central parts of the North West, central to western parts of the Free State, and central parts of the Eastern Cape.
Yellow level 1 warning: Severe thunderstorms with heavy downpours leading to localised flooding of susceptible roads, settlements, low-lying bridges/areas, hail, and excessive lightning in places over the western and southern parts of KwaZulu-Natal.
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 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.
The weather in your province
Gauteng: Cloudy and cool with scattered showers and thundershowers.
Pretoria: 16°C — 26°C
Johannesburg: 17°C — 24°C
Vereeniging: 15°C — 26°C
Mpumalanga: Morning fog patches over the highveld and escarpment, otherwise cloudy and cool to warm with scattered showers and thundershowers.
Mbombela: 16°C — 24°C
Ermelo: 17°C — 23°C
Emalahleni: 15°C — 22°C
Standerton: 16°C — 24°C
Skukuza: 23°C — 26°C
Limpopo: Cloudy in the morning, otherwise partly cloudy and warm with scattered showers and thundershowers.
Polokwane: 19°C — 25°C
Phalaborwa: 20°C — 26°C
Tzaneen: 20°C — 27°C
Musina: 23°C — 28°C
Lephalale: 22°C — 26°C
Mokopane: 21°C — 28°C
North West: Morning fog patches over the central interior otherwise, cloudy and cool with widespread to scattered showers and thundershowers.
Klerksdorp: 16°C — 26°C
Potchefstroom: 15°C — 25°C
Mahikeng: 17°C — 24°C
Rustenburg: 18°C — 24°C
Vryburg: 16°C — 26°C
Free State: Cloudy and cool with widespread showers and thundershowers in the west, otherwise scattered.
Bloemfontein: 15°C — 26°C
Welkom: 16°C — 28°C
Bethlehem: 13°C — 26°C
Northern Cape: Fine in the extreme west with morning and evening fog along the coast and adjacent interior, otherwise partly cloudy and warm with isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms but widespread in the extreme east, where it will be cloudy.
The wind along the coast will be moderate south-westerly.
Upington: 21°C — 30°C
Kimberley: 17°C — 27°C
De Aar: 17°C — 24°C
Alexander Bay: 15°C — 24°C
Springbok: 13°C — 25°C
Calvinia: 9°C — 26°C
Sutherland: 9°C — 25°C
Western Cape: Morning and evening fog patches over the north-west, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers the adjacent interior.
The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh northerly to north-westerly along the west and south-west coast, otherwise light to moderate westerly to south-westerly.
It will become light and variable along the west coast in the afternoon, spreading to the south coast in the evening.
Cape Town: 17°C — 25°C
Vredendal: 14°C — 27°C
Riversdale: 12°C — 27°C
George: 13°C — 23°C
Worcester: 13°C — 28°C
Beaufort West: 18°C — 29°C
Oudtshoorn: 14°C — 29°C
Western half of the Eastern Cape: Cloudy and warm with scattered showers and thundershowers, but widespread in the north-east. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate south-westerly.
Eastern half of the Eastern Cape: Partly cloudy in the extreme east, otherwise cloudy and warm to hot, with scattered showers and thundershowers, but widespread over the north-western parts. The wind along the coast will be moderate south-easterly.
Gqeberha: 13°C — 24°C
Makhanda: 14°C — 27°C
Cradock: 11°C — 29°C
Graaff-Reinet: 10°C — 29°C
East London: 18°C — 27°C
Port St Johns: 19°C — 31°C
Mthatha: 14°C — 31°C
Komani: 11°C — 26°C
Qonce: 15°C — 30°C
KwaZulu-Natal: Morning fog patches, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers. It will be very hot in places in the east.
The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh northerly to north-easterly, reaching fresh in places in the afternoon.
Durban: 22°C — 32°C
Richard’s Bay: 23°C — 35°C
Pietermaritzburg: 18°C — 34°C
Ladysmith: 17°C — 32°C
*This weather report was written with the support of Toqan AI.
