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Impact-based warnings have been issued for disruptive rain leading to flooding in multiple provinces. (Gallo Images/Brenton Geach)
The South African Weather Service has issued multiple warnings for disruptive rain and flooding in several regions across the country.
Impact-based warnings
A. Yellow Level 4 warning for disruptive rain leading to flooding of settlements, roads, and low-lying bridges has been issued for the Garden Route and eastern parts of the Overberg District Municipality in the Western Cape, eastern parts of the North West province, Gauteng, southern parts of the Western Bushveld in Limpopo, and the western parts of Mpumalanga.
B. Yellow Level 2 warning has been issued for disruptive rain leading to localised flooding of settlements roads, and low-lying bridges over the Koukamma, Kouga and Sundays River Local Municipalities, as well as Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape.
The weather in your region
Cloudy and cool conditions are expected in Gauteng, with scattered showers and thundershowers becoming partly cloudy from the afternoon.
The expected UVB sunburn index is low.
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Mpumalanga will have morning fog along the escarpment and Highveld, otherwise it will be cloudy and cool but hot in the Lowveld, with scattered showers and thundershowers in the west, but isolated in the east.
It will become partly cloudy by the late afternoon.
Morning fog is forecast in the east of Limpopo, otherwise cloudy and cool to warm temperatures are expected, with scattered showers and thundershowers in the south-west and northern Limpopo Valley, but isolated over the central parts.
It will become partly cloudy by the late afternoon.
The North West can expect cloudy, windy and cool to warm temperatures with scattered to isolated showers and thundershowers, except in the western parts.
Morning fog patches are forecast over the southern parts of the Free State, otherwise it will be cloudy and cold to cool, with isolated showers and thundershowers, except in the north-west, but scattered in the extreme east.
The Northern Cape will be cloudy in the west with morning fog patches, otherwise partly cloudy, windy and cool to warm conditions are expected, with isolated showers and thundershowers in the south where it will be cold.
The wind along the coast will be light and variable, becoming a moderate to fresh south to south-easterly in the afternoon.
Cloudy and cool conditions are forecast in the Western Cape, with scattered showers and thundershowers, but widespread along the south coast.
It will be partly cloudy along the west and the south-west coast.
The wind along the coast will be a moderate to fresh south-westerly, becoming moderate along the west coast from the afternoon.
The expected UVB sunburn index is high.
The western half of the Eastern Cape will be cloudy and cold with scattered showers and thundershowers, but widespread in the south.
The wind along the coast will be a moderate to fresh south-easterly, becoming a fresh to strong south-westerly in the afternoon.
Cloudy and cold conditions are forecast for the eastern half of the province with scattered showers and thundershowers, but isolated in the north-east.
The wind along the coast will be a light to moderate south-westerly, becoming fresh to strong by afternoon.
KwaZulu-Natal will be partly cloudy along the coast, otherwise cloudy and cool to warm temperatures are expected with isolated showers and thundershowers.
The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh northerly to north-easterly but strong in places south of Richards Bay, becoming westerly to south-westerly south of Durban from the morning, spreading northwards by the afternoon.
The expected UVB sunburn index is low.
