Regional weather forecast, Friday, 16 September 2022

Weather forecast data provided by the South African Weather Service. For a detailed forecast of your province, click here.

Severe Weather Alerts

IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS:

1.Yellow level 1 warning for strong damaging winds which might result in some travel routes being affected, and localized power and communications interruptions are expected over the central parts of the Northern Cape.

FIRE DANGER WARNINGS:

1.Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the Beaufort West and Laingsburg Municipalities of the Western Cape, the Khai-Ma and Hantam Municipalities of the Northern Cape including eastern parts of the province, as well as the Sarah Baartman District Municipality, Chris Hani District Municipality and Walter Sisulu Local Municipality, spreading to Raymond Mhlaba Local Municiality, Amahlathi Local Municipality and Intsika Yethu Local Municipality of the Eastern Cape.

ADVISORIES:

1.A steepening upper-air trough, surface trough and a ridging high pressure system are expected to result in disruptive rainfall can lead to flooding south of the escarpment of the Eastern Cape (Koukamma Local Municipality, Kouga Local Municipality, Nelson Mandela Bay Metro, Sundays River Valley, Ndlambe Local Municipality, Amathole District Municipality, Buffalo City Metro, OR Tambo District Municipality and Alfred Nzo District Municipality) from Sunday until Tuesday.

Temperature and UVB forecast

Gauteng:

Temperature: Fine and warm, becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Extreme.

Mpumalanga:

Temperature: Partly cloudy in the west by afternoon, otherwise fine and warm but hot over the Lowveld.

Limpopo:

Temperature: Partly cloudy in the west by afternoon, otherwise fine and warm to hot but very hot in the Lowveld.

North-West Province:

Temperature: Fine, windy and warm, becoming partly cloudy.

Free State:

Temperature: Fine, windy and warm, becoming partly cloudy

Northern Cape:

Temperature: Morning fog in places along the coast, otherwise fine and warm but cool along the coast, becoming partly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers in the south-east. It will be windy in places in the east.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly to south-westerly.

Western Cape:

Temperature: Cloudy along the coastal regions at first becoming fine and cool, otherwise fine and warm over the interior becoming partly cloudy from the afternoon.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh south-westerly.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Extreme.

Eastern Cape:

The Western half –Cloudy with fog in the south during the morning, otherwise partly cloudy and hot with isolated showers and thundershowers from the afternoon, but windy in the north.

The Western half -Wind: The wind along the coast will be light to moderate north-easterly, becoming moderate to fresh south-westerly from late morning.

The Eastern half -Morning fog in places along the coast, otherwise fine and warm to hot, but windy in places. It will become partly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers from the afternoon.

The Eastern half -The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh north-easterly, becoming fresh to strong south-westerly in the south from evening.

Kwazulu-Natal:

Temperature: Fine and warm but hot in places over the interior, becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon with isolated thundershowers in the south-west.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh northerly to north-easterly.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: High.

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