News24 | Monday’s weather: Rain, floods, hot and uncomfortable conditions for SA

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Thundershowers are forecast for parts of the country.

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Monday will be a mix of weather conditions across the country, with disruptive rainfall expected in parts of the country while the Eastern and Western Cape will face a heatwave with uncomfortable conditions, according to the South African Weather Service.

Impact-based warnings

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 building and loss of livelihood and livestock as well as possible widespread displacement of affected communities are expected on Monday into Tuesday over the eastern areas of Mopani district as well as Collins Chabane Local Municipality in Limpopo and Bushbuckridge Local Municipality in Mpumalanga.

Orange Level 6 warning for disruptive rainfall resulting in flooding of roads and settlements (formal and informal), mudslides, rockfalls and soil erosion, danger to life due to fast flowing streams, damage to property, infrastructure, loss of livelihood and livestock are expected over the escarpment of Mpumalanga and Limpopo.

Yellow Level 2 warning: Localised flooding and mudslides in eastern parts of Mpumalanga and Limpopo.

Yellow Level 2 warning: Severe thunderstorms accompanied by heavy downpours, damaging winds, excessive lightning and hail resulting in localised flooding and damage to infrastructure and settlements are expected over the north-eastern parts of KwaZulu-Natal.

Severe weather warning update: Orange Level 9 Warning: Disruptive Rain -with heavy downpours leading to widespread flooding of low-lying areas, resulting in closure of some bridges and major roads, widespread damage to settlements or structures over a populated area pic.twitter.com/hVgIgpR06n

— SA Weather Service (@SAWeatherServic) January 11, 2026

Advisories

A heatwave with persistently high temperatures is expected until Tuesday over the Eastern Cape, except for the Joe Gqabi area and the southern parts of Nelson Mandela Bay.

Very hot to extremely hot and uncomfortable conditions are expected over the Central Karoo of the Western Cape on Monday.

The weather in your province

Gauteng: Partly cloudy and warm.

Pretoria: 17°C — 28°C

Johannesburg: 16°C — 26°C

Vereeniging: 16°C — 27°C

Mpumalanga: Cloudy, cool to warm with scattered showers and thundershowers.

Mbombela: 18°C — 21°C

Ermelo: 14°C — 22°C

Emalahleni: 14°C — 26°C

Standerton: 15°C — 26°C

Skukuza: 20°C — 26°C

Limpopo: Cloudy, cool to warm with scattered showers and thundershowers.

Polokwane: 16°C — 24°C

Phalaborwa: 20°C — 24°C

Tzaneen: 19°C — 22°C

Musina: 21°C — 25°C

Lephalale: 19°C — 30°C

Mokopane: 17°C — 25°C

North-West: Partly cloudy and hot with isolated thundershowers.

Klerksdorp: 17°C — 35°C

Potchefstroom: 16°C — 34°C

Mahikeng: 18°C — 34°C

Rustenburg: 18°C — 35°C

Vryburg: 17°C — 36°C

Free State: Partly cloudy and hot with isolated thundershowers.

Bloemfontein: 18°C — 35°C

Welkom: 18°C — 35°C

Bethlehem: 13°C — 32°C

Northern Cape: Cloudy along the coast with morning fog patches where it will be warm, otherwise fine and hot to very hot but partly cloudy in the east with isolated afternoon thundershowers.

The wind along the coast will be light and variable in the morning, becoming moderate to fresh southerly to south-easterly.

Upington: 25°C — 41°C

Kimberley: 21°C — 37°C

De Aar: 22°C — 38°C

Alexander Bay: 19°C — 27°C

Springbok: 18°C — 32°C

Calvinia: 15°C — 37°C

Sutherland: 14°C — 33°C

Western Cape: Cloudy and warm along the coastal areas with fog along the west coast and drizzle along the south coast in the morning, otherwise fine and hot to very hot, but extremely hot over the north-eastern interior.

The wind along the coast will be light and variable north of Cape Columbine in the morning, otherwise moderate to fresh southerly to south-easterly.

Cape Town: 20°C — 28°C

Vredendal: 16°C — 32°C

Riversdale: 23°C — 32°C

George: 19°C — 26°C

Worcester: 19°C — 36°C

Beaufort West: 23°C — 40°C

Oudtshoorn: 20°C — 36°C

Eastern Cape: On the western half, there will be fog patches along the coast at first, otherwise fine and hot to very hot, becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon, but cloudy over the interior, where isolated afternoon thundershowers can be expected.

The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh westerly to south-westerly.

Fog patches are expected on the eastern half along the coast and adjacent interior at first, otherwise fine and hot to very hot, becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon with isolated thundershowers over the eastern interior.

The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong north-easterly, becoming moderate to fresh south-westerly in the south in the late afternoon, spreading to Port St Johns by late evening.

Gqeberha: 19°C — 28°C

Makhanda: 18°C — 37°C

Cradock: 17°C — 40°C

Graaff-Reinet: 17°C — 40°C

East London: 21°C — 30°C

Port St Johns: 21°C — 32°C

Mthatha: 16°C — 39°C

Komani: 14°C — 38°C

Qonce: 17°C — 38°C

KwaZulu-Natal: Partly cloudy to cloudy with isolated showers.

Durban: 22°C — 30°C

Richards Bay: 22°C — 31°C