WEATHER: Severe thunderstorms, hail to batter 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 rain, snow, strong winds, and cold conditions are expected in some provinces this week.

SEVERE WEATHER ALERTS

IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS

A. Orange Level 6 Warning for Severe Thunderstorms resulting in flooding of settlements and roads, strong gusty wind and hail causing damages to structures, travel disruptions and municipal service outages incidents over the northern and eastern half of the Free State.

B. Yellow Level 2 Warning for Severe Thunderstorms resulting in localised damages to structures, falling trees and local fire incidents due to excessive lightning over southern parts of Gauteng, the Highveld of Mpumalanga, the southern and central parts of the North West, the northern vast parts of the Free State and in places in the extreme north-eastern parts of the Northern Cape.

FIRE DANGER WARNINGS

NIL

ADVISORIES

NIL

Weather conditions and UVB forecast in South Africa’s provinces

Gauteng

Gauteng can expect cloudy and cold with scattered showers and thundershowers.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index is Low

Mpumalanga

Mpumalanga, the Place of the Rising Sun, can expect morning fog patches along the escarpment, otherwise cloudy and cool to cold with scattered showers and thundershowers.

Limpopo

In Limpopo, morning fog patches along the escarpment, otherwise cloudy and cool to cold with isolated showers and thundershowers but scattered in the south and central.

North West

North West, known as Bokone Bophirima in Setswana, can expect cloudy, windy and cool with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers but widespread in the extreme south-east.

Free State

In the Free State, cloudy, windy and cold to cool with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers, but widespread in the north-western parts.

Northern Cape

Fine in the west with morning fog along the coast otherwise partly cloudy to cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers in the east where it will be windy. The wind along the coast will be light north-westerly becoming variable from the afternoon.

Western Cape

Partly cloudy over the interior at first otherwise fine to warm. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate north-easterly becoming light and variable from the afternoon.

The expected UVB sunburn index is High.

Eastern Cape

The Western half: Partly cloudy and cool, but warm in a few placed over the interior. The wind along the coast will be moderate easterly.

The Eastern half: Cloudy and cool with morning rain with chances of showers and rain over the escarpment in the afternoon. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh north-easterly

KwaZulu-Natal

Cloudy and cold to cool with scattered showers and thundershowers but isolated in the south-east. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate south-easterly north of Durban, otherwise light to moderate north-easterly, becoming fresh in the afternoon.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index is Low

Forecast data provided by the South African Weather Service.