Yellow Level 2 severe thunderstorms leading to flooding are expected in parts of North West, Free State, Gauteng and Limpopo. (Boris Jordan Photography/Getty Images)
Yellow Level 2 severe thunderstorms leading to flooding are expected in parts of the North West, the Free State, Gauteng and Limpopo, according to the South African Weather Service.
Yellow Level 4 coastal damaging winds are expected between Saldanha Bay and Cape Agulhas in the Western Cape.
Impact-based warnings
Yellow Level 2 warning: Severe thunderstorms leading to localised flooding of susceptible areas and damage to infrastructure, settlements, property, vehicles, livelihood and livestock, are expected over the central parts of the North West and the Free State, the northern parts of Gauteng and the extreme south-central parts of Limpopo.
Yellow Level 4 warning: In the evening, damaging wind leading to difficulty in navigation at sea is expected between Saldanha Bay and Cape Agulhas.
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Advisories
Extremely hot and uncomfortable conditions are expected over the interior of the West Coast district.
The weather in your province
Gauteng: Partly cloudy and cool to warm conditions with isolated showers and thundershowers expected.
Pretoria: 17°C — 24°C
Johannesburg: 16°C — 22°C
Vereeniging: 16°C — 23°C
Mpumalanga: Cloudy in the morning with fog along the escarpment. Otherwise, expect partly cloudy and cool to warm conditions with isolated showers and thundershowers.
Mbombela: 17°C — 26°C
Ermelo: 13°C — 22°C
Emalahleni: 14°C — 25°C
Standerton: 13°C — 20°C
Skukuza: 20°C — 29°C
Limpopo: Morning clouds along the Lowveld, followed by partly cloudy skies and warm temperatures with isolated showers and thundershowers.
Polokwane: 17°C — 24°C
Phalaborwa: 21°C — 30°C
Tzaneen: 18°C — 27°C
Musina: 21°C — 28°C
Lephalale: 19°C — 29°C
Mokopane: 17°C — 27°C
North West: Fine in the west initially, transitioning to partly cloudy to cloudy skies, warm temperatures, and scattered showers and thundershowers, with isolated activity in the extreme east.
Klerksdorp: 16°C — 27°C
Potchefstroom: 15°C — 26°C
Mahikeng: 16°C — 26°C
Rustenburg: 17°C — 27°C
Vryburg: 16°C — 29°C
Free State: Expect morning fog patches in the extreme east where it will be cool. Otherwise, the weather will be fine to partly cloudy and warm with scattered showers and thundershowers, isolated in the east.
Bloemfontein: 15°C — 30°C
Welkom: 16°C — 29°C
Bethlehem: 12°C — 26°C
Northern Cape: Morning fog along the coast where it will be cool. Elsewhere, fine and warm to hot conditions will become partly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers over the eastern parts in the afternoon. Coastal winds will be fresh to strong southerly to south-easterly.
Upington: 19°C — 34°C
Kimberley: 17°C — 31°C
De Aar: 15°C — 30°C
Alexander Bay: 16°C — 27°C
Springbok: 22°C — 36°C
Calvinia: 15°C — 36°C
Sutherland: 10°C — 32°C
Western Cape: Fine and very hot to extremely hot over the western interior and partly cloudy and warm to hot in other areas. Expect evening drizzle along the south coast.
Coastal winds will be light to moderate south-easterly along the south coast, otherwise fresh to strong southerly to south-easterly, and near gale along the southwestern coastline from late evening.
Cape Town: 20°C — 31°C
Vredendal: 17°C — 40°C
Riversdale: 15°C — 30°C
George: 16°C — 24°C
Worcester: 15°C — 34°C
Beaufort West: 16°C — 32°C
Oudtshoorn: 12°C — 34°C
Eastern Cape: Fog in the morning, followed by cloudy and cool to warm weather with isolated showers and thundershowers. Coastal winds will be moderate to fresh north-easterly.
Gqeberha: 15°C — 26°C
Makhanda: 14°C — 26°C
Cradock: 13°C — 30°C
Graaff-Reinet: 13°C — 28°C
East London: 18°C — 26°C
Port St Johns: 18°C — 25°C
Mthatha: 14°C — 27°C
Komani: 13°C — 26°C
Qonce: 16°C — 26°C
KwaZulu-Natal: Morning fog over the interior. Otherwise, cloudy and cool to warm conditions with isolated showers and thundershowers and partly cloudy weather in the west. Coastal winds will shift from moderate southerly to south-easterly, becoming easterly to north-easterly in the south by afternoon.
Durban: 20°C — 26°C
Richards Bay: 19°C — 29°C
Pietermaritzburg: 15°C — 24°C
Ladysmith: 14°C — 28°C
*This weather report was written with the support of Toqan AI.