WEATHER: Hail, heavy rain and strong winds set to pound SA

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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 that fine, cool conditions are expected in some provinces this week.

SEVERE WEATHER ALERTS

IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS

A. Orange Level 5 Warning: Severe thunderstorms accompanied by heavy downpours and with a possibility of damaging winds, excessive lightning and hail, leading to injuries and danger to life, as well as flooding and motor vehicle accidents due to slippery roads and/reduced visibility, is expected over the north-eastern parts of the Northern Cape and the extreme western parts of the Free State.

B. Yellow Level 2 Warning: Severe thunderstorms accompanied by heavy downpours and with a possibility of damaging winds, excessive lightning and hail, leading to localised flooding is expected over the western parts of the Free State, extreme western parts of the North West, and the central parts of the Northern Cape.

C. Yellow Level 2 Warning: Disruptive rain resulting in localised flooding of settlements, roads and low-lying bridges, localised disruptions to power supply and communications as well as minor motor vehicle accidents due to slippery roads and/reduced visibility is expected along the KwaZulu-Natal coast in the morning.

D. Yellow Level 2 Warning: Damaging Winds resulting in localised damage to settlements, localised interruption to power and communications and difficult driving conditions is expected over Northern Cape except in the south-east, the western and northern parts of the Western Cape as well as the western parts of the North West.

FIRE DANGER WARNINGS

Extremely high fire danger is expected over the western Bushveld in Limpopo.

ADVISORIES

NIL

Weather conditions and UVB forecast in South Africa’s provinces

Gauteng

Gauteng can expect cloudy and cool, becoming partly cloudy from the afternoon. It will be warm in the extreme north.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index is Moderate

Mpumalanga

Mpumalanga, the Place of the Rising Sun, can expect cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and rain in the east, becoming partly cloudy in the west in the afternoon.

Limpopo

In Limpopo, partly cloudy to cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and rain in the east.

North West

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

Free State

In the Free State, cloudy, windy and cool, with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers over the central and western parts.

Northern Cape

Cloudy, windy and cool to warm with scattered to widespread showers and thundershowers except in the extreme western parts where it be partly and cold in places. The wind along the coast will be strong to near gale south-easterly.

Western Cape

Fine over the south-western parts, otherwise cloudy to partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers in the north-east. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh easterly to south-easterly but strong along the south-west coast.

The expected UVB sunburn index is very high

Eastern Cape

The Western half: Cloudy and cool with isolated to scattered showers and rain except along the coast and adjacent interior where it will be partly cloudy in places. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh north-easterly, becoming light in the afternoon.

The Eastern half: Cloudy and cool with scattered showers and rain, but thundershowers in the north. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh north-easterly.

KwaZulu-Natal

Cloudy and cool with isolated showers and rain but scattered along the coast and adjacent interior. The wind along the coast will be light and variable in the south at first, otherwise moderate to fresh easterly to north-easterly.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index is Low

Forecast data provided by the South African Weather Service.