WEATHER: Severe storms and damaging winds to hit SA TODAY

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

The South African Weather Service has issued two warnings, including a Yellow Level 2 alert for severe thunderstorms, and a Yellow Level 1 warning for damaging coastal winds affecting navigation along the west coast on Wednesday.

SEVERE WEATHER ALERTS

IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS

A. Yellow Level 2 Warning: Severe thunderstorms resulting in localised damage to infrastructure, settlements informal), property, vehicles, livelihood and livestock over the central and eastern parts of North West, central and western parts of Free State as well as north-eastern parts of Northern Cape.

B. Yellow Level 1 Warning: Damaging Coastal winds resulting in difficulty in navigation at sea is expected between Cape Columbine and Cape Agulhas.

FIRE DANGER WARNINGS

Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the interior of Namakwa local district of Northern Cape as well as City of Cape Town Local District, Bergrivier and Drakenstein local Municipalities of Western Cape.

ADVISORIES

Very hot and uncomfortable conditions are expected over the western parts of Namakwa Municipal District in the Northern Cape as well as the West Coast, and south western parts of Cape Winelands Municipal District in the Western Cape.

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 morning fog patches on the escarpment and the Highveld areas, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to cold with isolated showers and thundershowers.

Limpopo

In Limpopo, cloudy and cool with isolated showers and thundershowers.

North West

North West, known as Bokone Bophirima in Setswana, can expect cloudy with morning fog patches in places in the east and central, otherwise partly cloudy and warm with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers.

Free State

In Free State, morning fog patches in the east, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated showers and thundershowers, but scattered over the central and western parts.

Northern Cape

The day will start warm in the north-west, otherwise fine and hot to very hot but partly cloudy in the central and east with isolated showers and thundershowers but scattered in the extreme east in the afternoon. The wind along the coast will be fresh westerly to south-westerly.

Western Cape

Fine and hot to very hot but cool to warm in the south. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate south-easterly to easterly along the west coast, reaching fresh to strong along the south-west and south coast. It will moderate along the south coast from the evening.

The expected UVB sunburn index is Extreme

Eastern Cape

The Western half: Partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated afternoon thundershowers in the north. It will be fine in the south-west. The wind along the coast will be fresh easterly to south-easterly in the afternoon.

The Eastern half: The day will start fine and cool, but partly cloudy with isolated thundershowers in the north. The wind along the coast will be moderate north-easterly, becoming fresh north-easterly in the afternoon.

KwaZulu-Natal

Morning fog over the interior, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers. The wind along the coast will be moderate easterly to south- easterly.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index is Moderate

Forecast data provided by the South African Weather Service.