WEATHER: Rain hits KZN, heatwaves bake Cape provinces

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.

SEVERE WEATHER ALERTS

IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS

A. Yellow level 4 warning: Severe thunderstorms accompanied by heavy downpours, damagingwinds, excessive lightning, and hail resulting in danger to life (fast flowing streams /deep water) due to flooding of roads, settlements and low-lying areas, resulting in closure of some bridges and roads, damage or loss of infrastructure, settlements (formal and informal), property, vehicles, livelihood, agricultural production and livestock as well as fire incidents (dwelling/veld fire) due lightning are expected over the western parts.

B. Yellow level 2 warning: Severe thunderstorms leading to localized flooding of susceptible roads, low-lying areas and bridges, as well as large amounts of small hail over an open area, heavy downpours and excessive lightning are expected over south-western parts of Gauteng, south- western Bushveld of Limpopo, northern parts of Free State and over North West province except over the north-western parts.

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 showers and thundershowers.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index is High

Mpumalanga

Mpumalanga, The Place of the Rising Sun, can expect partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers, except in the Lowveld, where it will be fine and hot to very hot.

Limpopo

In Limpopo, it will be fine in the morning, becoming partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers, except for the Lowveld and the Limpopo Valley, where it will be very hot.

North West

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

Free State

In Free State, morning fog in the extreme east is expected; otherwise, partly cloudy and warm to hot, with isolated showers and thundershowers in the east.

Northern Cape

The day will start with morning fog patches along the coast, otherwise fine and warm to hot, but very hot in places. It will become partly cloudy in the east in the afternoon with isolated showers and thundershowers in the extreme north-east. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh south to south-easterly

Western Cape

Morning fog patches along the west coast as well as the south coast, where it will be partly cloudy and cool, otherwise fine and warm to hot, but very hot in places. The wind along the coast will be light and variable along the south coast, becoming moderate south-westerly to westerly from the afternoon, otherwise moderate to fresh south-easterly to southerly.

The expected UVB sunburn index is Very High.

Eastern Cape

The Western half: The day will begin with morning fog patches in places over the interior, otherwise fine and warm to hot. The wind along the coast will be moderate south-westerly, becoming fresh to strong.

The Eastern half: The day will begin with morning fog patches in places over the interior, otherwise fine and warm to hot, becoming partly cloudy with isolated thundershowers in the extreme eastern interior. The wind along the coast will be moderate south-westerly.

KwaZulu-Natal

KwaZulu-Natal can expect morning fog patches in places over the interior, otherwise partly cloudy and warm but hot in places in the north. Isolated showers and rain are expected, except in the extreme north-east. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh northerly to north westerly in the extreme north, otherwise light to moderate south-westerly, spreading to Kosi Bay late morning. It will become light to moderate south easterly from the afternoon.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index is very high.

Forecast data provided by the South African Weather Service.