WEATHER: Severe thunderstorms with heavy downpours 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 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 with heavy downpours, strong damaging winds, hail and excessive lightning, resulting in localised flooding of susceptible roads, low-lying areas and bridges, and localised damage to settlements and infrastructure, are expected over North West, Gauteng, the Highveld of Mpumalanga, south-western Limpopo, northern Free State and the extreme north-eastern parts of Northern Cape.

FIRE DANGER WARNINGS

NIL

ADVISORIES

NIL

Weather conditions and UVB forecast in South Africa’s provinces

Gauteng

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

The expected UVB Sunburn Index is Low

Mpumalanga

Mpumalanga, the Place of the Rising Sun, can expect cloudy and cold with scattered showers and thundershowers but isolated over the northern part of the Lowveld.

Limpopo

Cloudy and cool to cold with isolated showers and thundershowers but scattered over the south-western and south-central parts.

North West

North West, known as Bokone Bophirima in Setswana, can expect cloudy, windy and cool with scattered showers and thundershowers.

Free State

In the Free State, cold in the east, otherwise cloudy and cool with isolated showers and thundershowers but scattered in the north.

Northern Cape

Hot in places in the west, otherwise fine and warm but partly cloudy in the east with isolated showers and thundershowers. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh easterly to southeasterly, becoming north-westerly in the afternoon.

Western Cape

Partly cloudy over the north-eastern parts in the morning, otherwise fine and cool to warm but hot over the west coast. The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong north-easterly along the south-coast in the morning, otherwise moderate to fresh south-easterly but strong to near gale-force along the south-west coast.

The expected UVB sunburn index is Very high

Eastern Cape

The Western half: Partly cloudy along the coast at first, otherwise fine and cool. The wind along the coast will be moderate easterly.

The Eastern half: Fine in the north-west, otherwise partly cloudy and cool. It will become cloudy south of the escarpment and along the coast from late afternoon with evening rain east of the Kei River. The wind along the coast will be moderate north-easterly.

KwaZulu-Natal

Morning and evening fog patches over the interior, otherwise cloudy and cold to cool. Isolated showers and rain are expected but scattered along the coast and in the extreme north. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate southerly to southwesterly, becoming easterly to south-easterly in the afternoon.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index is Low

Forecast data provided by the South African Weather Service.