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Mpumalanga and Limpopo are bracing for heavy downpours and damaging winds, while the Northern Cape faces dangerously high fire risks. (Boris Jordan Photography/Getty Images)
Severe thunderstorms and extreme fire risks are set to grip parts of South Africa on Wednesday, as the South African Weather Service issues multiple warnings for disruptive weather.
Impact-based warnings
Orange level warning: Severe thunderstorms with heavy downpours and damaging winds expected in the Ehlanzeni District, Mpumalanga. Anticipate flooding, road closures, damage to infrastructure, and major travel disruptions.
Yellow level 4 warning: Severe thunderstorms with heavy downpours and damaging winds in the Mopani District and eastern Vhembe District of Limpopo, and extreme eastern Highveld of Mpumalanga. Expect flooding, road closures, and infrastructure damage.
Yellow level 2 warning: Localised flooding and infrastructure damage in northwestern KwaZulu-Natal due to severe thunderstorms.
??Weather & severe weather alerts for tomorrow, 15 January 2025. As well as the weather outlook for Thursday & Friday, 16 - 17 January 2025.
Isolated to scattered showers & thundershowers are expected over the central & eastern parts of the country. #saws #weatheroutlook pic.twitter.com/3svjXth9zb
Fire danger warnings
Extremely high fire danger conditions are anticipated over the central parts of the Northern Cape and certain areas of the western Free State.
The weather in your province
Gauteng: Partly cloudy with warm temperatures and scattered thundershowers expected in the afternoon.
- Pretoria: 17°C — 28°C
- Johannesburg: 16°C — 27°C
- Vereeniging: 17°C — 29°C
Mpumalanga: Partly cloudy and warm to hot with scattered showers and thundershowers, widespread along the escarpment and in the Lowveld. Very hot conditions expected in some Lowveld areas.
- Mbombela: 19°C — 32°C
- Ermelo: 16°C — 26°C
- Emalahleni: 15°C — 25°C
- Standerton: 15°C — 25°C
- Skukuza: 21°C — 35°C
Limpopo: Morning fog patches in the west with cloudy conditions, transitioning to partly cloudy and warm to hot weather. Expect scattered showers and thundershowers, isolated in the northwest.
- Polokwane: 18°C — 30°C
- Phalaborwa: 22°C — 35°C
- Tzaneen: 20°C — 33°C
- Musina: 21°C — 34°C
- Lephalale: 19°C — 30°C
- Mokopane: 18°C — 28°C
North West: Warm to hot and partly cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers, isolated in the west.
- Klerksdorp: 18°C — 29°C
- Potchefstroom: 19°C — 28°C
- Mahikeng: 19°C — 29°C
- Rustenburg: 19°C — 31°C
- Vryburg: 18°C — 33°C
Free State: Warm to hot, partly cloudy, and windy with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers in the east.
- Bloemfontein: 13°C — 32°C
- Welkom: 18°C — 30°C
- Bethlehem: 12°C — 25°C
Northern Cape: Fine and windy with cool to warm temperatures. It will be partly cloudy in the south, west, and extreme northeast, clearing from the west in the afternoon. Coastal winds will be fresh to strong from the south-southeast.
- Upington: 14°C — 29°C
- Kimberley: 15°C — 31°C
- De Aar: 11°C — 26°C
- Alexander Bay: 15°C — 23°C
- Springbok: 13°C — 24°C
- Calvinia: 10°C — 25°C
- Sutherland: 8°C — 20°C
Western Cape: Cloudy and cool with scattered showers and rain along the south coast and adjacent interior in the morning. Conditions improving to fine and warm in the west by afternoon. Coastal winds will be moderate to fresh from the south-southwest.
- Cape Town: 14°C — 21°C
- Vredendal: 13°C — 26°C
- Riversdale: 13°C — 19°C
- George: 13°C — 19°C
- Worcester: 13°C — 24°C
- Beaufort West: 14°C — 24°C
- Oudtshoorn: 13°C — 22°C
Western half of the Eastern Cape: Cloudy and cool with isolated showers and rain, more widespread along the coast and adjacent interior. The coastal wind will be moderate to fresh, becoming southerly in the afternoon.
Eastern half of the Eastern Cape: Partly cloudy in the extreme northwest, transitioning to cloudy and cool with isolated showers and rain, more frequent along the coast and adjacent interior. Coastal winds will be fresh to strong, easing to moderate southerly.
- Gqberha: 17°C — 22°C
- Makhanda: 10°C — 18°C
- Cradock: 9°C — 20°C
- Graaff-Reinet: 10°C — 22°C
- East London: 14°C — 22°C
- Port St Johns: 15°C — 22°C
- Umtata: 11°C — 20°C
- Komani: 8°C — 19°C
- Qonce: 11°C — 21°C
KwaZulu-Natal: Morning fog patches over the interior, becoming cloudy and cool to warm; partly cloudy in the west. Scattered showers and thundershowers are expected in the afternoon.
Coastal winds will be moderate to fresh northeasterly, shifting to strong southerly-southwesterly in the south and spreading north by late morning.
- Durban: 17°C — 25°C
- Richards Bay: 19°C — 28°C
- Pietermaritzburg: 13°C — 23°C
- Ladysmith: 13°C — 31°C
*This weather report was written with the support of Toqan AI.
