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The weather service has issued a warning for heavy rain leading to widespread flooding in parts of Limpopo and Mpumalanga.
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The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has issued a red level 10 warning for heavy rain leading to widespread flooding in parts of Limpopo and Mpumalanga.
Severe thunderstorms are expected in parts of the North West and Free State.
Impact-based warnings
Red level 10 warning: Disruptive rain with further heavy downpours leading to widespread flooding, resulting in danger to life due to fast-flowing streams, displacement of communities, widespread damage to settlements or structures over the northern escarpment and the Lowveld of Mpumalanga, as well as the southern Lowveld of Limpopo.
Orange level 9 warning: Disruptive rainfall resulting in widespread flooding of roads and settlements, widespread mudslides, rockfalls and soil erosion, danger to life due to fast-flowing streams, widespread damage to property, buildings and loss of livelihood and livestock. Widespread displacement of affected communities is possible in the eastern parts of Limpopo (Vhembe and Mopani District Municipalities) and in the Mpumalanga Lowveld and escarpment (Ehlanzeni District Municipality).
Orange level 6 warning: Disruptive rainfall resulting in flooding of roads and settlements (formal and informal), mudslides, rockfalls and soil erosion. There will be a danger to life due to fast-flowing streams, as well as damage to property, infrastructure, loss of livelihood and livestock in the central parts of Limpopo (parts of Capricorn and Sekhukhune District Municipalities) and eastern Highveld of Mpumalanga (Emakhazeni, Msukaligwa, Mkhondo and Chief Albert Luthuli Local Municipalities).
WHAT IS AN IMPACT-BASED WEATHER WARNING?
How often do you come across news reports suggesting that the South African Weather Service (SAWS) has issued an Impact-Based Weather Warning of a certain level and a particular colour-coding? What does it mean?
Yellow level 4 warning: Disruptive rain with heavy downpours leading to flooding of roads and settlements. The could also be displacement of affected communities, and major disruption of traffic flow due to major roads being flooded or closed in the north-eastern parts of KwaZulu-Natal.
Yellow level 2 warning: Disruptive rainfall resulting in localised flooding of susceptible formal/informal settlements or roads, low-lying areas and bridges, localised mudslides, rockfalls and soil erosion in places in Mpumalanga and the central to western parts of Limpopo.
Yellow level 2 warning: Severe thunderstorms with heavy downpours, damaging winds, large amounts of hail and excessive lighting leading to localised flooding and damage to settlements and infrastructure are expected in the central parts of North West and the Free State.
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. Red indicates a high impact.
SAWS uses the numbers to indicate the likelihood of weather-based impacts occurring. Levels 2 and 6 are high, Level 4 is low and Level 9 is medium. Level 10 indicates a high liklihood of impacts occuring.
The weather in your province
Gauteng: Cloudy and cool to warm, with scattered showers and thundershowers. It will be hot in the extreme north.
Pretoria: 17°C — 28°C
Johannesburg: 16°C — 26°C
Vereeniging: 17°C — 26°C
Mpumalanga: Warm over the Lowveld, otherwise cloudy and cool with widespread showers and thundershowers, scattered in the west.
Mbombela: 19°C — 23°C
Ermelo: 16°C — 19°C
Emalahleni: 16°C — 22°C
Standerton: 16°C — 22°C
Skukuza: 22°C — 26°C
Limpopo: Cloudy and cool to warm with scattered showers and thundershowers, widespread in the east.
Polokwane: 18°C — 23°C
Phalaborwa: 21°C — 27°C
Tzaneen: 19°C — 22°C
Musina: 22°C — 29°C
Lephalale: 22°C — 32°C
Mokopane: 19°C — 25°C
North West: Partly cloudy and hot with scattered showers and thundershowers, isolated in the extreme west.
Klerksdorp: 18°C — 32°C
Potchefstroom: 18°C — 30°C
Mahikeng: 18°C — 32°C
Rustenburg: 18°C — 32°C
Vryburg: 20°C — 33°C
Free State: Partly cloudy and warm to hot, with scattered showers and thundershowers, isolated in the south.
Bloemfontein: 18°C — 34°C
Welkom: 19°C — 33°C
Bethlehem: 15°C — 28°C
Northern Cape: Fine over the central parts, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot, but very hot in the north-central parts. Coastal winds: Strong southerly to south-easterly.
Upington: 22°C — 37°C
Kimberley: 21°C — 35°C
De Aar: 16°C — 33°C
Alexander Bay: 18°C — 26°C
Springbok: 12°C — 27°C
Calvinia: 11°C — 29°C
Sutherland: 9°C — 27°C
Western Cape: Partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and rain along the south coast.
Coastal winds: Fresh south-westerly along the south coast, otherwise fresh to strong southerly to south-easterly.
Cape Town: 17°C — 27°C
Vredendal: 14°C — 29°C
Riversdale: 15°C — 27°C
George: 14°C — 24°C
Worcester: 14°C — 30°C
Beaufort West: 15°C — 30°C
Oudtshoorn: 14°C — 27°C
Eastern Cape: Cloudy and cool with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers. Coastal winds: Moderate south-easterly to easterly.
Gqeberha: 18°C — 20°C
Makhanda: 15°C — 21°C
Cradock: 13°C — 28°C
Graaff-Reinet: 12°C — 25°C
East London: 18°C — 21°C
Port St Johns: 17°C — 20°C
Mthatha: 13°C — 20°C
Komani: 12°C — 23°C
Qonce: 15°C — 21°C
KwaZulu-Natal: Morning fog patches over the western and central interior, otherwise cloudy and cool to warm with scattered showers and rain, widespread in the north-east.
Coastal winds: Moderate southerly to south-westerly, becoming south-easterly in the south in the afternoon.
Durban: 22°C — 29°C
Richards Bay: 23°C — 28°C
Pietermaritzburg: 17°C — 25°C
Ladysmith: 18°C — 29°C
*This weather report was written with the support of Toqan AI.
