SA braces for severe thunderstorms, hail and lightning blitz

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

The South African Weather Service has issued weather updates stating rain, snow, strong winds, and cold conditions are expected in some provinces this week.

SEVERE WEATHER ALERTS

IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS

A. Orange Level 5 Warning: Severe Thunderstorms leading flooding of susceptible settlements and roads, strong gusty wind and hail causing damages to structures and falling trees and municipal service outages incidents due to excessive lightning activity over the central parts of Northern Cape.

B. Yellow Level 4 Warning: Severe Thunderstorms leading localized flooding of susceptible settlements and roads, strong gusty wind and hail causing damages to structures and falling trees and municipal service outages incidents due to excessive lightning activity over the central and eastern parts of Northern Cape, as well as extreme western parts of North-West.

C. Yellow Level 2 Warning: Severe Thunderstorms leading to localized wind and hail damages to structures and falling trees and local fire incidents due to excessive lightning over Free State and most parts of North-West.

D. Yellow Level 2 Warning: Damaging Wind and Waves leading to disruption of ports/harbours, danger to navigation at sea from Richards Bay to Kosi Bay.

E. Yellow Level 2 Warning: Damaging Wind leading to disruption of ports/harbours, danger to navigation at sea from Cape Town to Cape Agulhas.

FIRE DANGER WARNINGS

NIL

ADVISORIES

NIL

Weather conditions and UVB forecast in South Africa’s provinces

Gauteng

Gauteng can expect coudy and cool with scattered showers and thundershowers.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index is High

Mpumalanga

Mpumalanga, the Place of the Rising Sun, can expect morning fog along the escarpment, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to cold with isolated showers and thundershowers. It will be cloudy in the east.

Limpopo

In Limpopo, morning fog along the escarpment, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers but scattered in the southwest. it with be cloudy in the east.

North West

North West, known as Bokone Bophirima in Setswana, can expect cloudy, windy and cool to warm, with scattered showers and thundershowers but widespread in the west.

Free State

In the Free State, cloudy, windy and cool to warm with scattered showers and thundershowers but isolated in the extreme east.

Northern Cape

Cloudy in the central and eastern parts where widespread to scattered showers and thundershowers, otherwise fine to partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers expected in places over the western parts. Morning fog patches are expected in places in the south. The wind along the coast will be fresh south-easterly.

Western Cape

Fine to partly cloudy and cool to warm, but cloudy over the north-eastern parts until the afternoon, with drizzle over the south-eastern parts in the evening. The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong easterly along the south coast, otherwise fresh to strong southerly to south-easterly, reaching gale along the southwest coast.

The expected UVB sunburn index is Moderate

Eastern Cape

The Western half: Cloudy and cool with light rain in places along the coast. The wind along the coast will be Moderate easterly

The Eastern half: Cloudy and cool with light rain and showers. The wind along the coast will be Light to moderate easterly to north easterly.

KwaZulu-Natal

Cloudy and cold to cool with isolated showers and rain. The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong southerly to south-westerly north of Richards bay at first, otherwise moderate to fresh easterly to south-easterly. It will become moderate to fresh north-easterly south of Durban by late morning, spreading to Cape St Lucia in the evening.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index is High

Forecast data provided by the South African Weather Service.