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Widespread showers and thundershowers are expected in most regions, including Kwazulu-Natal and along the Wild Coast in the Eastern Cape. (Sarayut Thaneerat/Getty Images)
The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has warned of widespread showers and thundershowers in most regions, including KwaZulu-Natal and along the Wild Coast in the Eastern Cape.
Strong winds are expected in coastal regions of the Northern Cape and along the KwaZulu-Natal coast during the afternoon.
Impact-based warnings
Yellow Level 4 warning: Disruptive rainfall resulting in flooding of roads and settlements (formal and informal) and major disruption of traffic flow due to major roads being flooded or closed is expected over most parts of KwaZulu-Natal except in the northeast.
Yellow Level 2 warning: Disruptive rain resulting in heavy downpours which will lead to flooding of susceptible areas, roads and bridges, localised damage to properties and temporal disruptions of municipal services is expected along the Wild Coast in the Eastern Cape.
Weather & severe weather alerts for today & tomorrow, 15 - 16 April 2025.
Partly cloudy & cool, with isolated to scattered showers & thundershowers over the central & eastern parts of the country, but widespread over KwaZulu-Natal with a possibility of localised flooding. #saws pic.twitter.com/R2MqCyNbbD
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. Level 2 is high, and Level 4 is low.
WHAT IS AN IMPACT-BASED WEATHER WARNING?How often do you come across news reports suggesting that the South African Weather Service (SAWS) has issued an Impact-Based Weather Warning of a certain level and a particular colour-coding? What does it mean?Thread?? pic.twitter.com/Gs5mocCBwi
— SA Weather Service (@SAWeatherServic) April 15, 2025The weather in your province
Gauteng: Partly cloudy and cool with scattered showers and thundershowers.
Pretoria: 16°C — 25°C
Johannesburg: 15°C — 22°C
Vereeniging: 13°C — 22°C
Mpumalanga: Morning fog in places, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with scattered showers and thundershowers, becoming isolated along the escarpment and in the Lowveld.
Mbombela: 17°C — 26°C
Ermelo: 12°C — 19°C
Emalahleni: 14°C — 19°C
Standerton: 13°C — 19°C
Skukuza: 20°C — 29°C
Limpopo: Morning fog in places, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers. Scattered showers expected in the south-west.
Polokwane: 15°C — 24°C
Phalaborwa: 20°C — 28°C
Tzaneen: 17°C — 25°C
Musina: 20°C — 29°C
Lephalale: 17°C — 27°C
Mokopane: 15°C — 24°C
North West: Morning fog patches in the western regions, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers, but scattered showers in the east.
Klerksdorp: 12°C — 23 °C
Potchefstroom: 12°C — 22°C
Mahikeng: 13°C — 24°C
Rustenburg: 14°C — 23°C
Vryburg: 12°C — 24°C
Free State: Morning fog patches in some areas, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers, becoming scattered in the eastern parts.
Bloemfontein: 8°C — 20°C
Welkom: 11°C — 21°C
Bethlehem: 9°C — 19°C
Northern Cape: Morning fog patches expected in the east. Otherwise, fine and cool to warm conditions with isolated showers and thundershowers in the extreme northeastern regions.
The coastal wind will be fresh to strong southerly to south-easterly.
Upington: 11°C — 26°C
Kimberley: 11°C — 21°C
De Aar: 8°C — 21°C
Alexander Bay: 12°C — 24°C
Springbok: 11°C — 26°C
Calvinia: 6°C — 23°C
Sutherland: 3°C — 19°C
Western Cape: Morning fog over southern areas, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm. Fine weather is expected in western parts, clearing over the Central Karoo by the evening.
Coastal winds will vary from moderate to fresh southerly to south-easterly, becoming light to moderate easterly to south-easterly along the south coast in the afternoon.
Cape Town: 16°C — 21°C
Vredendal: 10°C — 29°C
Riversdale: 11°C — 22°C
George: 11°C — 19°C
Worcester: 10°C — 23°C
Beaufort West: 9°C — 22°C
Oudtshoorn: 8°C — 22°C
Western half of the Eastern Cape: Cloudy along the coast with isolated morning showers and rain. Expect partly cloudy and cool weather inland. Coastal winds will be light and variable in the morning, becoming moderate south-easterly later.
Eastern half of the Eastern Cape: Cloudy and cool conditions with isolated to scattered showers and rain, widespread along the Wild Coast. Coastal winds will be light and variable in the morning and evening, becoming moderate easterly to south-easterly during the day.
Gqeberha: 14°C — 20°C
Makhanda: 10°C — 21°C
Cradock: 6°C — 21°C
Graaff-Reinet: 7°C — 20°C
East London: 15°C — 21°C
Port St. Johns: 16°C — 19°C
Mthatha: 9°C — 17°C
Komani: 8°C — 19°C
Qonce: 10°C — 21°C
KwaZulu-Natal: Morning fog in places is expected, otherwise cloudy and cold to cool with widespread showers and thundershowers. The northeastern parts may be slightly warmer with scattered thundershowers.
Coastal winds will be moderate to fresh southerly to south-westerly, strengthening by the afternoon.
Durban: 18°C — 23°C
Richards Bay: 18°C — 24°C
Pietermaritzburg: 13°C — 19°C
Ladysmith: 12°C — 21°C
*This weather report was written with the support of Toqan AI.
