WEATHER: SA faces thunderstorms, hail, and powerful winds

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

A. Yellow level 2 warning: Severe Thunderstorms leading to excessive lightning, large amounts of small hail, and gusty winds are expected over the western and southern parts of the Namakwa district municipality in the Northern Cape, as well as the Central Karoo and West Coast districts of the Western Cape

FIRE DANGER WARNINGS

Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the north-eastern parts of the Northern Cape.

ADVISORIES

NIL

Weather conditions and UVB forecast in South Africa’s provinces

Gauteng

Gauteng can expect partly cloudy and warm.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index is Very High

Mpumalanga

Mpumalanga, the Place of the Rising Sun, can expect morning fog patches along the escarpment, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers, except the extreme south-western parts.

Limpopo

Cloudy in the east at first, otherwise partly cloudy and warm with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers expected over places in the east, as well as the south-western parts.

North West

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

Free State

In the Free State, fine and warm, becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon.

Northern Cape

Fine and warm becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon with isolated showers and thundershowers in the east.

Western Cape

Partly cloudy over the Little and Central Karoo during the morning, where there will be widespread showers and thundershowers by the afternoon, otherwise cloudy and warm with scattered showers and thundershowers. The wind along the coast will be light and variable along the west until the afternoon, otherwise moderate north- westerly, becoming fresh easterly to south-easterly from the afternoon.

The expected UVB sunburn index is Very high

Eastern Cape

The Western half: Morning fog in places in the south, otherwise fine and cool to warm becoming cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers but isolated in places along the coast. The wind along the coast will be moderate north-easterly at first, otherwise moderate to fresh south-westerly.

The Eastern half: Cloudy with fog patches in places south of the escarpment, otherwise fine and warm to hot, becoming cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers, except in the extreme east, but scattered in the north-west. The wind along the coast will be moderate north-easterly, becoming moderate to fresh south-westerly in the south by the afternoon, spreading to the rest of the coast by late evening.

KwaZulu-Natal

Morning fog over the interior, otherwise partly cloudy and warm with isolated showers and thundershowers in the extreme south-west and north-east. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate northerly to north-easterly, becoming fresh in the afternoon.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index is High

Forecast data provided by the South African Weather Service.