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The South African Weather Service has warned that severe thunderstorms are expected over large parts of the central interior, Gauteng, eastern parts of KwaZulu-Natal, eastern Mpumalanga and south-west Limpopo.
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The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has issued a yellow level 2 warning for severe thunderstorms across large parts of the country.
Impact-based warning:
Yellow level 2 warning: Severe thunderstorms are expected over large parts of the central interior, Gauteng, and the eastern parts of KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, and south-west Limpopo. These may lead to localised flooding of susceptible roads, low-lying areas and bridges, localised damage to settlements, large amounts of small hail, excessive lightning, and strong damaging winds.
Advisory:
Hot and humid weather will result in very uncomfortable conditions over the north-eastern parts of KwaZulu-Natal until Sunday.
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 a 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: Partly cloudy and warm with scattered showers and thundershowers.
Pretoria 17—30°C
Johannesburg 15—27°C
Vereeniging 15—28°C
Mpumalanga: Cloudy at first with morning fog along the escarpment, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers, except in the Lowveld.
Mbombela 19—29°C
Ermelo 17—27°C
Emalahleni 16—27°C
Standerton 16—28°C
Skukuza 21—34°C
Limpopo: Cloudy at first with morning fog along the escarpment, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated showers and thundershowers in the south-west.
Polokwane 18—29°C
Phalaborwa 21—33°C
Tzaneen 17—29°C
Musina 20—33°C
Lephalale 22—34°C
Mokopane 20—33°C
North West: Partly cloudy and warm to hot with scattered showers and thundershowers but isolated over the extreme west.
Klerksdorp 17—31°C
Potchefstroom 17—30°C
Mahikeng 18—33°C
Rustenburg 19—33°C
Vryburg 19—36°C
Free State: Morning fog in the extreme east, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated showers and thundershowers but scattered in the east.
Bloemfontein 17—36°C
Welkom 18—33°C
Bethlehem 14—30°C
Northern Cape: Partly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers in the north-east, otherwise fine and hot to very hot.
The wind along the coast will be moderate southerly.
Upington 24—40°C
Kimberley 22—38°C
De Aar 21—36°C
Alexander Bay 17—24°C
Springbok 20—34°C
Calvinia 15—32°C
Sutherland 13—31°C
Western Cape: Morning fog in places along the coast, otherwise fine and hot to very hot, but partly cloudy and cool to warm with light rain along the south coast.
The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly to south-easterly, but light to moderate south-westerly along the south coast in the morning.
Cape Town 19—29°C
Vredendal 16—33°C
Riversdale 19—31°C
George 17—25°C
Worcester 18—35°C
Beaufort West 19—36°C
Oudtshoorn 17—35°C
Western half of the Eastern Cape: Cloudy in places in the south, otherwise partly cloudy and warm, with isolated thundershowers over interior.
The wind along the coast will be light to moderate southerly to south-easterly.
Eastern half of the Eastern Cape: Cloudy with light drizzle along the coast, otherwise partly cloudy and warm, with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers.
The wind along the coast will be light to moderate south-easterly.
Gqeberha 20—26°C
Makhanda 19—30°C
Cradock 16—36°C
Graaff-Reinet 15—36°C
Komani 15—31°C
Qonce 19—27°C
East London 21—28°C
Port St Johns 20—27°C
Umtata 17—25°C
KwaZulu-Natal: Morning fog over interior, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers, except in the extreme north-east.
The wind along the coast will be light and variable until late morning, otherwise light to moderate easterly to north-easterly.
Durban 24—30°C
Richard’s Bay 23—32°C
Pietermaritzburg 19—31°C
Ladysmith 18—32°C
*This weather report was written with the support of Toqan AI.
