WEATHER: Severe storms with heavy rain, HAIL and winds to hit SA

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Here’s the weather outlook for South Africa’s nine provinces.

Severe thunderstorms capable of producing torrential downpours, intense lightning, significant hail and damaging winds are expected. Meanwhile, sweltering and uncomfortable heat is also forecast in some areas.

SEVERE WEATHER ALERTS

IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS

A. Orange L5 Warning: Severe Thunderstorms producing heavy downpours, hail and excessive lightning that will lead to flooding of susceptible roads, low-lying areas and bridges, damages to infrastructure and properties due to large amounts of small hail or large hail in an open area, strong damaging winds, and disruptions to communication and municipality services due to lightning activity, are expected over the northern parts of Gauteng, central parts of Limpopo as well as the Highveld of Mpumalanga (except for the extreme south-west).

B. Yellow L4 Warning: Severe Thunderstorms producing heavy downpours, hail and excessive lightning that will lead to flooding of susceptible roads, low-lying areas and bridges, damages to infrastructure and properties due to large amounts of small hail or large hail in an open area, strong damaging winds, and disruptions to communication and municipality services due to lightning activity, are expected over Limpopo (except for the central parts and Lowveld), southern parts of Gauteng, Mpumalanga escarpment and the extreme south-west, as well as the north-western parts of KwaZulu-Natal.

FIRE DANGER WARNINGS

NIL

ADVISORIES

Very hot and uncomfortable conditions are expected in places over the west coast and Cape Winelands Districts in the Western Cape and the Kamiesberg local municipality in the Northern Cape.

Weather conditions and UVB forecast in South Africa’s provinces

Gauteng

Gauteng can expect cool conditions in places in the south, otherwise cloudy and warm with widespread showers and thundershowers.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index is Low

Mpumalanga

Mpumalanga, the Place of the Rising Sun, can expect cloudy and cool to warm with scattered to widespread showers and thundershowers, but isolated in the extreme north-east.

Limpopo

In Limpopo, it is partly cloudy, warm to hot, becoming cloudy from the west with scattered to widespread showers and thundershowers, but isolated in the extreme east.

North West

North West, known as Bokone Bophirima in Setswana, can expect partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers, except in the extreme west. It will be windy in places.

Free State

In Free State, partly cloudy and cool to warm, with isolated showers and thundershowers but scattered in the east. It will be windy in places.

Northern Cape

The day will start cloudy over the western and southern parts in the early morning, otherwise fine and warm to hot, but partly cloudy over the eastern parts, where it will be windy in places. Isolated showers and thundershowers are expected in the extreme east. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly to south-easterly, reaching strong from the afternoon.

Western Cape

Cloudy over the southern and north-eastern parts with at first a chance of light rain over the south-eastern parts in the early morning, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot but fine over the interior and west coast. It will be very hot over the West Coast and northern parts of the Cape Winelands. It will be cool in places along the south coast and the peninsula, and windy along the west and south-west coastal areas. The wind along the coast will be light and variable along the south coast in the morning, becoming moderate southerly to south-easterly from the afternoon, otherwise fresh to strong southerly to south-easterly.

The expected UVB sunburn index is Very High.

Eastern Cape

The Western half: Cloudy with morning fog in places in the south, otherwise fine and warm, but cool along the coast. The wind along the coast will be Light westerly in the morning, otherwise light south-easterly.

The Eastern half: The day will start cloudy and cool with a chance of rain in places. Isolated thundershowers are expected in places over the extreme northern parts. The wind along the coast will be light south-westerly in the morning, otherwise light south-easterly.

KwaZulu-Natal

Morning fog patches over the interior, otherwise cloudy and cool with scattered showers and thundershowers, but widespread over the north-western parts. The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong southerly to south-westerly, becoming moderate from the south by late morning.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index is Low

Forecast data provided by the South African Weather Service.