WEATHER: Severe storms with heavy rain and winds expected

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

The South African Weather Service has issued a Yellow Level 2 warning for severe thunderstorms, cautioning that heavy downpours, strong winds, hail, excessive lightning, and possible localised flooding may affect parts of the country.

SEVERE WEATHER ALERTS

IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS

A. Yellow level 2 warning: Severe thunderstorms with heavy downpours, damaging winds, hail and excessive lightning resulting in localised flooding and damage to infrastructure and settlements are expected over the north-eastern parts of Limpopo.

FIRE DANGER WARNINGS

NIL

ADVISORIES

NIL

Weather conditions and UVB forecast in South Africa’s provinces

Gauteng

Gauteng can expect cloudy at first, otherwise partly cloudy and warm with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index is High

Mpumalanga

Mpumalanga, the Place of the Rising Sun, can expect cloudy and cool with isolated showers and thundershowers, but scattered in the Lowveld.

Limpopo

In Limpopo, cloudy and cool but warm in places with scattered showers and thundershowers but widespread in the northern Lowveld.

North West

North West, known as Bokone Bophirima in Setswana, can expect cloudy in the east, otherwise partly cloudy and warm but hot in the southwest, with isolated showers and thundershowers but scattered in the northeast.

Free State

In Free State, cloudy with morning fog patches in the east, otherwise fine to partly cloudy and warm but hot in the west. Isolated showers and rain are expected in the extreme north and eastern parts.

Northern Cape

The day will start cool along the coast, otherwise fine and warm to hot, becoming partly cloudy in the east from the afternoon with isolated showers and thundershowers in the extreme northeast. The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong southerly to south-easterly.

Western Cape

Fine and cool to warm, becoming partly cloudy over the south-western parts from the evening. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly to south-easterly, but easterly along the south coast in the morning.

The expected UVB sunburn index is Very high

Eastern Cape

The Western half: Fine and warm. The wind along the coast will be light north-easterly, becoming light to moderate south-westerly.

The Eastern half: The day will start with fog patches in the morning, otherwise fine and warm. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate north-easterly.

KwaZulu-Natal

Morning fog over the interior, otherwise partly cloudy and warm but cool in the south-west. Isolated showers and thundershowers are expected in the north and west. The wind along the coast will be southerly to south-easterly in the north at first, otherwise moderate to fresh easterly to north-easterly spreading to the north in the evening.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index is Very high

Forecast data provided by the South African Weather Service.