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The weather service has warned of disruptive rain in Cape Town, Cape Winelands, parts of Overberg, and the West Coast District.
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The South African Weather Service has issued a warning for disruptive rain that may lead to localised flooding for most parts of the Western Cape.
Damaging waves and winds are also expected in the province and in some parts of the Eastern Cape and Northern Cape.
Impact-based warnings
Disruptive rainfall: Yellow Level 4 alert for Cape Town, Cape Winelands, western parts of Overberg, and the southern parts of the West Coast District in the Western Cape. Expect flooding and difficult driving conditions on Saturday into Sunday.
Damaging waves: Yellow Level 2 alert for difficulty navigating at sea between Saldanha Bay and Cape Agulhas on Saturday, spreading to Plettenberg Bay from Sunday into Monday.
Damaging winds (coast): Yellow Level 2 alert between Saldanha Bay and Cape Agulhas, which may disrupt small harbours and ports.
Damaging winds (interior): Yellow Level 1 alert for Joe Gqabi and Chris Hani districts in the Eastern Cape. Localised power and communication disruptions and dangers for high-sided vehicles are possible on prone routes.
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. Levels 2 and 6 are high, and Level 4 is low.
Advisories
Cold, wet, and windy conditions are expected in the interior of the Western Cape, Namakwa district (Northern Cape) from Saturday into Monday, and the Eastern Cape from Sunday into Wednesday.
Snowfall over high-lying areas and mountain peaks could lead to icy road conditions, notably in Beaufort West municipality (Western Cape) on Sunday evening, spreading into mountainous regions of the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, and southern Free State on Monday.
The weather in your province
Gauteng: Morning frost and fog patches in the south, otherwise fine and cool.
- Pretoria: 7°C — 21°C
- Johannesburg: 6°C — 20°C
- Vereeniging: 3°C — 21°C
Mpumalanga: Morning fog over the Highveld, otherwise fine and cool to warm.
- Mbombela: 10°C — 25°C
- Ermelo: 7°C — 22°C
- Emalahleni: 8°C — 21°C
- Standerton: 2°C — 22°C
- Skukuza: 14°C — 30°C
Limpopo: Partly cloudy in the north, otherwise fine and cool to warm.
- Polokwane: 6°C — 21°C
- Phalaborwa: 14°C — 29°C
- Tzaneen: 8°C — 27°C
- Musina: 12°C — 26°C
- Lephalale: 10°C — 23°C
- Mokopane: 8°C — 24°C
North West: Fine, windy, and cool, but partly cloudy in the west.
- Klerksdorp: 9°C — 23°C
- Potchefstroom: 8°C — 21°C
- Mahikeng: 9°C — 22°C
- Rustenburg: 8°C — 22°C
- Vryburg: 10°C — 22°C
Free State: Partly cloudy and windy with cool temperatures. Isolated showers and thundershowers expected in the south-west.
- Bloemfontein: 9°C — 22°C
- Welkom: 9°C — 23°C
- Bethlehem: 5°C — 19°C
Northern Cape: Partly cloudy, windy, and cool to warm. Isolated showers and thundershowers are expected in the south-east and west, with scattered showers in the south-west. Coastal winds will be moderate to fresh north-westerly.
- Upington: 12°C — 24°C
- Kimberley: 12°C — 23°C
- De Aar: 10°C — 20°C
- Alexander Bay: 10°C — 20°C
- Springbok: 8°C — 16°C
- Calvinia: 1°C — 12°C
- Sutherland: 0°C — 9°C
Western Cape: Cloudy, windy, and cold with scattered to widespread showers and rain. Cool with isolated showers in the east and partly cloudy in the north-east. Coastal winds will be moderate to fresh west to north-westerly, but strong to near-gale force along the south-west coast in the morning.
- Cape Town: 11°C — 15°C
- Vredendal: 10°C — 17°C
- Riversdale: 9°C — 18°C
- George: 11°C — 20°C
- Worcester: 10°C — 15°C
- Beaufort West: 8°C — 17°C
- Oudtshoorn: 6°C — 18°C
Western half of the Eastern Cape:
Partly cloudy, windy, and cool, becoming cloudy with isolated showers and rain along the coast west of Cape St Francis in the evening. Coastal winds will be moderate to fresh south-westerly.
Eastern half of the Eastern Cape: Partly cloudy, windy, and cool with isolated thundershowers north of the escarpment. Coastal winds will be light northerly to north-westerly, becoming moderate to fresh south-westerly in the early afternoon.
- Gqeberha: 13°C — 22°C
- Makhanda: 9°C — 23°C
- Cradock: 10°C — 22°C
- Graaff-Reinet: 10°C — 23°C
- East London: 15°C — 23°C
- Port St Johns: 16°C — 27°C
- Mthatha: 12°C — 26°C
- Komani: 8°C — 22°C
- Qonce: 11°C — 24°C
KwaZulu-Natal: Partly cloudy and warm, cooler in the west. Fine conditions in the north. Coastal winds will be light to moderate northerly to north-easterly, fresh in the north, becoming south-westerly in the evening in the south.
- Durban: 19°C — 28°C
- Richards Bay: 18°C — 31°C
- Pietermaritzburg: 12°C — 27°C
- Ladysmith: 9°C — 24°C
*This weather report was written with the support of Toqan AI.
