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Severe thunderstorms, heavy rain, strong winds, and hail are expected in at least six provinces.
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The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has issued warnings of severe thunderstorms with heavy rain, strong winds, and hail in parts of Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Gauteng, the Free State, and the North West.
Hot and humid conditions are also expected in KwaZulu-Natal.
Impact-based warnings
Orange level 5 warning: Severe thunderstorms with heavy downpours, strong, damaging winds, large amounts of small hail and excessive lightning, leading to damage to infrastructure, informal settlements, property, vehicles, livelihood and livestock, as well as flooding of susceptible roads, low-lying areas and bridges are expected over the extreme eastern parts of Mpumalanga and Limpopo.
Yellow level 4 warning: Severe thunderstorms with heavy downpours, strong, damaging winds, large amounts of small hail and excessive lightning, leading to damage to infrastructure, informal settlements, property, vehicles, livelihood and livestock, as well as localised flooding of susceptible roads, low-lying areas and bridges are expected over KwaZulu-Natal as well as the central parts of Mpumalanga and Limpopo.
Yellow level 4 warning: Damaging winds and waves leading to localised disruption of small harbours or ports for a short period of time, and damage to settlements and infrastructure are expected between Port Edward and Port St Lucia.
Yellow level 2 warning: Severe thunderstorms with heavy downpours, strong damaging winds, large amounts of small hail and excessive lightning, leading to localised damage to infrastructure, informal settlements, property, vehicles, livelihood and livestock, as well as localised flooding of susceptible roads, low-lying areas and bridges are expected over Gauteng, the eastern parts of North West, extreme eastern parts of Free State, south-western parts of Limpopo and the western highveld of Mpumalanga.
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 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.
Advisories
Hot and humid weather will result in extremely uncomfortable conditions over the north-eastern parts of KwaZulu-Natal.
The weather in your province
Gauteng: Cloudy and cool to warm with scattered showers and thundershowers.
Pretoria: 17°C — 25°C
Johannesburg: 15°C — 24°C
Vereeniging: 16°C — 25°C
Mpumalanga: Cloudy and warm with scattered showers and thundershowers, becoming widespread in the east. It will be hot in the Lowveld.
Mbombela: 19°C — 27°C
Ermelo: 16°C — 23°C
Emalahleni: 16°C — 27°C
Standerton: 17°C — 25°C
Skukuza: 21°C — 34°C
Limpopo: Partly cloudy and warm to hot in places with scattered showers and thundershowers, widespread in the lowveld. Be prepared for sudden downpours.
Polokwane: 18°C — 28°C
Phalaborwa: 22°C — 34°C
Tzaneen: 20°C — 30°C
Musina: 20°C — 35°C
Lephalale: 21°C — 34°C
Mokopane: 19°C — 28°C
North West: Partly cloudy and warm to hot with scattered showers and thundershowers, isolated in the west.
Klerksdorp: 16°C — 30°C
Potchefstroom: 16°C — 28°C
Mahikeng: 18°C — 28°C
Rustenburg: 19°C — 29°C
Vryburg: 17°C — 30°C
Free State: Cloudy in the extreme east, otherwise partly cloudy and warm with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers.
Bloemfontein: 16°C — 28°C
Welkom: 17°C — 30°C
Bethlehem: 14°C — 25°C
Northern Cape: Partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated showers and thundershowers in the north-east. Fine weather in the west. Coastal areas will experience fresh to strong south-easterly winds.
Upington: 17°C — 33°C
Kimberley: 18°C — 29°C
De Aar: 15°C — 26°C
Alexander Bay: 14°C — 25°C
Springbok: 10°C — 30°C
Calvinia: 9°C — 30°C
Sutherland: 6°C — 24°C
Western Cape: Partly cloudy and warm to hot, but cool to warm along the south coast and adjacent interior with isolated to scattered showers and rain in the morning. Western parts will be fine and windy. Coastal winds will be strong south-easterly.
Cape Town: 17°C — 23°C
Vredendal: 13°C — 31°C
Riversdale: 15°C — 21°C
George: 15°C — 20°C
Worcester: 15°C — 25°C
Beaufort West: 14°C — 22°C
Oudtshoorn: 14°C — 23°C
Eastern Cape: Cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and rain, scattered along the coast and adjacent interior. Widespread rain expected over the Wild Coast. Coastal winds will be fresh to strong south-easterly or south-westerly.
Gqeberha: 17°C — 21°C
Makhanda: 14°C — 20°C
Cradock: 12°C — 20°C
Graaff-Reinet: 13°C — 23°C
East London: 19°C — 23°C
Port St Johns: 16°C — 21°C
Mthatha: 11°C — 16°C
Komani: 11°C — 18°C
Qonce: 12°C — 21°C
KwaZulu-Natal: Morning fog over the interior, otherwise cloudy and warm with widespread showers and thundershowers. It will be cool in places in the south-west. Coastal winds will be fresh to strong south-westerly to southerly.
Durban: 23°C — 25°C
Richard’s Bay: 21°C — 25°C
Pietermaritzburg: 17°C — 20°C
Ladysmith: 17°C — 25°C
*This weather report was written with the support of Toqan AI.
