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Widespread showers and thundershowers in multiple provinces. (Sarayut Thaneerat/Getty Images)
The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has warned of severe thunderstorms in many parts of the country.
Impact-based warnings:
Yellow Level 1 warning: Severe thunderstorms in the central and southern areas of the Northern Cape which may lead to localised damage to homes and other settlements, as well as flooding on vulnerable roads, low-lying areas, and bridges.
In the SAWS' 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.
SAWS uses the numbers to indicate the likelihood of weather-based impacts occurring.
Gauteng: Cloudy and cool with isolated showers and thundershowers.
Pretoria: 14°C — 20°C
Johannesburg: 13°C — 18°C
Vereeniging: 14°C — 18°C
Mpumalanga: Morning fog patches over the escarpment, otherwise cloudy and cool with isolated showers and thundershowers, except in the Lowveld.
Limpopo: Partly cloudy and cool to warm, becoming cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers, except in the Lowveld and Limpopo Valley.
North West: Morning fog patches in places at first, otherwise cloudy and cool with isolated showers and thundershowers.
Mahikeng: 12°C — 21°C
Vryburg: 12°C — 22°C
Free State: Morning fog patches in the west, otherwise cloudy and cool with isolated showers and thundershowers.
Bloemfontein: 9°C — 23°C
Northern Cape: Morning fog patches along the coast and over the eastern parts, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers, except in the extreme western parts. The wind along the coast will be light and variable, becoming moderate to fresh south to south-easterly.
Kimberley: 12°C — 24°C
Upington: 15°C — 29°C
Western Cape: Fine and cool to warm, becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon, except in the north-western parts. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly to south-easterly, becoming strong in the evening but moderate to fresh west to south-westerly along the south coast.
Cape Town: 19°C — 25°C
George: 13°C — 26°C
Western half of the Eastern Cape: Fine and warm to hot, becoming partly cloudy in places in the afternoon. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate north-easterly, becoming south-westerly in the west in the afternoon.
Eastern half of the Eastern Cape: Partly cloudy and cool to warm, but cloudy in the extreme north with isolated showers and thundershowers. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh north-easterly.
Gqeberha: 16°C — 26°C
East London: 18°C — 24°C
KwaZulu-Natal: Cold in the extreme south-west with morning fog over the central and western interior, otherwise partly cloudy and cool but warm in the extreme north-east with isolated showers and rain in the west. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate westerly to north-westerly south of Cape St Lucia in the morning, otherwise moderate to fresh northerly to north-easterly but southerly to south-westerly in the north.
Durban: 17°C — 24°C
Richards Bay: 17°C — 25°C
Pietermaritzburg: 11°C — 22°C
*This weather report was written with the support of Toqan AI.
