News24 | Wednesday's weather: Damaging winds leading to difficult sea navigation in Western Cape

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A Yellow Level 2 warning has been issued for damaging winds leading to difficulty in navigation at sea between Table Bay and Plettenberg Bay.

A Yellow Level 2 warning has been issued for damaging winds leading to difficulty in navigation at sea between Table Bay and Plettenberg Bay.

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Damaging winds leading to difficulty in navigation at sea in the Western Cape are expected on Wednesday, according to the South African Weather Service.

Other parts of country can expect partly cloudy and hot to warm conditions, with isolated showers and thundershowers in the east. Otherwise, fine and very hot temperatures elsewhere.  

Impact-based warnings

A Yellow Level 2 warning for damaging winds leading to difficulty in navigation at sea has been issued for the area between Table Bay and Plettenberg Bay in the Western Cape. 

Fire danger warnings

Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the northern and central parts of Northern Cape, the interior of the Namakwa District (Northern Cape), and over the interior the West Coast and Cape Winelands (Western Cape).   

Advisories

Extremely hot and uncomfortable conditions are expected in places over the interior of Namakwa (Northern Cape), the West Coast, the City of Cape Town and Cape Winelands (Western Cape).   

??Weather outlook for tomorrow, 28 February 2024.partly cloudy and hot to warm, with isolated showers and thundershowers in the east. Otherwise, fine and very hot.??Weather warning??: Damaging winds are expected between Table Bay & Plettenberg Bay. #saws#southafricanweather pic.twitter.com/1UImgEYG3C

— SA Weather Service (@SAWeatherServic) February 27, 2024

The weather in your region 

Cloudy and cool conditions are expected in Gauteng, becoming partly cloudy in the evening.

The expected UVB sunburn index is moderate.   

Mpumalanga and Limpopo will be cloudy with cool to warm temperatures and fog and drizzle along the escarpment in the morning.   

Fine conditions in the west at first are forecast for the North West, otherwise partly cloudy and hot to very hot temperatures are expected.   

The Free State is expected to be cloudy with morning fog patches and drizzle in the east at first, otherwise partly cloudy and warm conditions are forcast.

Fine and warm to hot temperatures are expected in the Northern Cape, but partly cloudy and very hot in the north.

It will be extremely hot over the south-west.   

The wind along the coast will be a fresh to strong southerly, but light and variable north of Port Nolloth.   

The Western Cape will be partly cloudy in places over Cape Winelands and Central Karoo in the morning.

Otherwise, fine and hot to very hot but extremely hot temperatures are forecast over the West Coast.

It will be warm along the Cape Peninsula and south coast.

The wind along the coast will be a fresh to strong south-easterly north of Table Bay, becoming fresh to strong north-westerly towards the evening. Otherwise, a strong to gale force easterly to south-easterly is expected.

The expected UVB sunburn index is extreme.   

Morning fog in places over the interior is expected for the western half of the Eastern Cape, otherwise partly cloudy and warm, but hot in places over interior. It will become fine from late morning.   

The wind along the coast will be a fresh to strong easterly.   

The eastern half of the province will be cloudy, with fog patches in places south of escarpment at first.

Otherwise, it will be partly cloudy with cool to warm conditions.

The wind along the coast will be a moderate to fresh north-easterly.   

KwaZulu-Natal is forecast to have morning fog over the interior. Otherwise, it will be cloudy with cool but warm temperatures in the north-east, and a chance of light morning and evening rain and showers.

The wind along the coast will be a moderate southerly to south-easterly, becoming easterly to north-easterly from the south in the afternoon.   

The expected UVB sunburn index is moderate.  

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