WEATHER: Foggy mornings, stormy skies ahead for SA

Get daily updates on temperatures, winds and UVB levels, and see what the SA Weather Service predicts for the country.

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

The South African Weather Service has issued weather updates stating that fine, cool conditions are expected in some provinces this week.

SEVERE WEATHER ALERTS

IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS

NIL

FIRE DANGER WARNINGS

NIL

ADVISORIES

NIL

Weather conditions and UVB forecast in South Africa’s provinces

Gauteng

Gauteng can expect partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index is High

Mpumalanga

Mpumalanga, the Place of the Rising Sun, can expect cloudy in the east at first with morning fog in places over the Highveld, otherwise partly cloudy and cool with isolated showers and thundershowers. It will be warm in the Lowveld.

Limpopo

Cloudy in the east in the morning with a chance of drizzle and fog patches along the escarpment, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers over the central and south-eastern parts.

North West

North West, known as Bokone Bophirima in Setswana, can expect partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers.

Free State

In the Free State, morning fog patches in the east and along the Lesotho border, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers.

Northern Cape

Morning fog patches along the coast and in the south-east, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers, except in the extreme north-west. The wind along the coast will be moderate north-westerly.

Western Cape

Cloudy with morning fog along the south coast, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers, except over the extreme south-western parts. The wind along the coast will be moderate north-westerly along the west and south-west coast at first, otherwise moderate north-easterly becoming south-westerly from the afternoon.

The expected UVB sunburn index is Very high

Eastern Cape

The Western half: Morning fog in places south of escarpment, otherwise partly cloudy and warm but cool along the coast. Isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers are expected but scattered in the west from the afternoon. The wind along the coast will be light north-easterly, becoming moderate easterly in the afternoon.

The Eastern half: Morning fog, south of escarpment, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with Isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers. The wind along the coast will be light and variable, becoming moderate to fresh north-easterly towards midday.

KwaZulu-Natal

Morning fog over the interior, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate southerly to south-westerly, becoming easterly to north-easterly in the south from mid-morning, spreading northward in the afternoon.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index is High

Forecast data provided by the South African Weather Service.