Thursday’s Weather

Issued by the South African Weather Service (Saws).

SEVERE WEATHER ALERTS:
IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS:
A. Yellow level 2 warning: Severe thunderstorms accompanied by heavy downpours, excessive lightning,damaging winds and large amounts of small hail resulting in localized flooding of susceptible roads, low-lying areas and bridges, and localized damage to infrastructure, settlements, property and vehicles are expected over the eastern parts of North West, eastern parts of Free State, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, except in the extreme north-east as well as the extreme south-eastern parts of Limpopo.
B. Yellow level 1 warning: Disruptive rainfall resulting in localised flooding of susceptible formal/informalsettlements or roads, low-lying areas and bridges, difficult driving conditions on dirt roads and minor motor vehicle accidents due to slippery roads and/reduced visibility is expected over the eastern parts of KwaZulu-Natal.

FIRE DANGER WARNINGS:
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Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the Dawid Kruiper and Khai-Ma Local Municipalities of the Northern Cape and the Laingsberg Local Municipality of Western Cape.

ADVISORIES:
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GAUTENG:
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Cloudy and cool to warm with scattered showers and thundershowers

PRETORIA:
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Cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers. Minimum/Maximum: 17/26

JOHANNESBURG:
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Cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers. Minimum/Maximum: 15/24

VEREENIGING:
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Cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers. Minimum/Maximum: 14/25

MPUMALANGA:
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Cloudy and cool with scattered showers and thundershowers, but isolated in the extreme north-east.

MBOMBELA:
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Cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers. Minimum/Maximum: 17/19

LIMPOPO:
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Cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thunder- showers, but scattered showers and thundershowers in the south-east.

POLOKWANE:
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Cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers. Minimum/Maximum: 17/24

NORTH-WEST PROVINCE:
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Cloudy and warm with scattered showers and thundershowers, but isolated in the west. It will be partly cloudy in the north-west.

MAHIKENG:
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Cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers. Minimum/Maximum: 15/29

VRYBURG:
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Cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers. Minimum/Maximum: 17/29

FREE STATE:
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Cloudy in the east, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with scattered showers and thundershowers, but isolated in the south.

BLOEMFONTEIN:
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Partly cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers. Minimum/Maximum: 14/27

NORTHERN CAPE:
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Fine in the extreme west, becoming partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated showers and thundershowers over the central and eastern parts. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly to south-easterly.

KIMBERLEY:
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Partly cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers. Minimum/Maximum: 16/29

UPINGTON:
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Partly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers. Minimum/Maximum: 20/34

WESTERN CAPE:
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Fine and warm to hot over the eastern interior but very hot over the West Coast District. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh south- easterly to easterly but strong along the south-western coast.

CAPE TOWN:
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Fine. Wind: Moderate to fresh southerly to south-easterly. Minimum/Maximum: 15/33

GEORGE:
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Fine. Wind: Moderate to fresh southerly to south-easterly. Minimum/Maximum: 12/25

WESTERN HALF OF THE EASTERN CAPE:
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Fine in the extreme west, otherwise partly cloudy and cool with isolated thundershowers in the north-east where it will be warm. The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong easterly.

EASTERN HALF OF THE EASTERN CAPE:
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Cloudy and cool with isolated showers and thundershowers. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh easterly to north-easterly.

GQEBERHA:
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Partly cloudy. Wind: Fresh to strong easterly. Minimum/Maximum: 15/22

EAST LONDON:
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Cloudy with isolated showers of rain. Wind: Moderate to fresh easterly to north-easterly. Minimum/Maximum: 16/22

KWAZULU-NATAL:
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Cloudy and cool with scattered showers and thundershowers. It will be cold in the south-west. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate easterly to south-easterly, becoming north-easterly in the south from the afternoon.

DURBAN:
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Cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers. Wind: Light to moderate easterly to south-easterly. Minimum/Maximum: 20/22

RICHARDS BAY:
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Cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers. Wind: Light to moderate southerly to south-easterly. Minimum/Maximum: 21/23

PIETERMARITZBURG:
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Cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers. Minimum/Maximum: 16/20

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