Friday’s Weather

Issued by the South African Weather Service (Saws).

SEVERE WEATHER ALERTS:
IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS:
A. Yellow Level 4 Warning: Damaging waves resulting in damage to coastal infrastructure and disruption to beachfront activities are expected along the coast between Alexander Bay and Plettenberg Bay.

B. Yellow level 2 Warning: Damaging coastal winds resulting in localized disruption of small harbours and/or a port for a short period of time, small vessels at risk of taking on water and capsizing in a locality, and difficulty in navigation are expected between Port Edward and Cape Vidal as well as between Cape Agulhas and East London.

C. Yellow Level 2 Warning: Damaging waves resulting in damage to coastal infrastructure and disruption to beachfront activities are expected along the coast between Plettenberg Bay and East London.

D. Yellow level 2 Warning: Damaging interior winds leading to localized problems for high-sided vehicles on prone routes and some transport services are expected over Free State, the southeastern parts of the Northern Cape, and northwestern parts of KwaZulu-Natal, as well as along the coast and adjacent interior of the Eastern Cape between Plettenberg Bay and East London.

E. Yellow level 2 Warning: disruptive rainfall leading to localised flooding of susceptible formal and informal settlements or roads and low-lying areas over Cederberg, the City of Cape Town, Cape Winelands, and the western parts of the Overberg District (Western Cape) in the morning.

F. Yellow Level 1 Warning: Disruptive snow resulting in traffic disruption due to icy roads and isolated loss of vulnerable livestock and crops is expected over the Senqu and Elundini Local Municipalities of the Eastern Cape.

FIRE DANGER WARNINGS:
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Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the Dr. Pixley ka Isaka Seme local municipality in Mpumalanga, as well as the Ba-Phalaborwa and Maruleng local municipalities in Limpopo.

ADVISORIES:
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An intense cold front is expected to continue to affect the Western, Northern Cape and Free State provinces until Friday. The public and small stock farmers are advised that very cold, wet and windy conditions with heavy rainfall, strong interior winds, gale-force coastal winds, very rough to high seas and light snowfall on the high ground can be expected.

GAUTENG:
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Partly cloudy, windy and cool.

PRETORIA:
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Fine. Minimum/Maximum: 03/14

JOHANNESBURG:
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Fine. Minimum/Maximum: 01/11

VEREENIGING:
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Fine. Minimum/Maximum: -1/11

MPUMALANGA:
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Windy in the Highveld, otherwise fine and cool to warm, but partly cloudy in the south.

MBOMBELA:
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Fine, becoming partly cloudy. Minimum/Maximum: 11/19

LIMPOPO:
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Windy in the west, otherwise fine and cool to warm, but partly cloudy in the southwest.

POLOKWANE:
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Fine. Minimum/Maximum: 07/15

NORTH-WEST PROVINCE:
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Partly cloudy, windy and cool to cold with isolated showers and thundershowers in the south.

MAHIKENG:
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Fine. Minimum/Maximum: -1/13

VRYBURG:
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Fine. Minimum/Maximum: -1/13

FREE STATE:
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Partly cloudy, windy and cold to very cold with isolated showers and thundershowers.

BLOEMFONTEIN:
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Partly cloudy with morning fog. Minimum/Maximum: -1/09

NORTHERN CAPE:
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Cloudy in the western and southern parts, otherwise partly cloudy, windy and cold to very cold with isolated showers and thundershowers, but scattered in the extreme west. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh westerly to south-westerly.

KIMBERLEY:
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Partly cloudy. Minimum/Maximum: -1/11

UPINGTON:
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Morning fog, otherwise partly cloudy. Minimum/Maximum: 02/11

WESTERN CAPE:
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Cloudy, windy and cold with isolated to scattered showers and rain, but widespread in the southwest. Light snow is expected on the high ground. The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong southwesterly but strong to gale force westerly to northwesterly along the south coast. It will become light southerly along the southwest coast in the evening.

CAPE TOWN:
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Cloudy with light rain. Wind: Light to moderate westerly to southwesterly, becoming fresh to strong northwesterly from the afternoon. Minimum/Maximum: 10/14

GEORGE:
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Cloudy, becoming partly cloudy in the evening. Wind: Fresh to strong westerly to southwesterly, becoming light and moderate from the afternoon. Minimum/Maximum: 08/15

WESTERN HALF OF THE EASTERN CAPE:
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Cool with scattered showers along the coast, otherwise cloudy, windy and cold to very cold with isolated light showers. Light snowfalls can be expected in places over the northern high ground. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh northwesterly but strong to gale-force westerly from late morning.

EASTERN HALF OF THE EASTERN CAPE:
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Cloudy and cool to cold with isolated showers and rain. It will be windy and cold to very cold in the north with snow over the high ground. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate northwesterly, but southwesterly from late morning, becoming fresh to strong from the south.

GQEBERHA:
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Partly cloudy. Wind: Fresh to strong westerly.
Minimum/Maximum: 09/18

EAST LONDON:
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Partly cloudy, otherwise fine. Wind: Fresh to strong southwesterly. Minimum/Maximum: 11/18

KWAZULU-NATAL:
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Partly cloudy and cool but warm in the east. Isolated showers and rain from late afternoon except in the places in the north. The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong north-easterly, but light to moderate southerly to south-westerly south of Durban.

DURBAN:
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Cloudy with isolated morning showers and rain, becoming fine by the afternoon. Wind: Moderate to fresh southerly to southwesterly, becoming light westerly to northwesterly by the evening. Minimum/Maximum: 15/20

RICHARDS BAY:
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Cloudy with isolated morning showers and rain, becoming fine from late morning. Wind: Moderate to fresh southerly to southwesterly, becoming light westerly to northwesterly by the evening. Minimum/Maximum: 16/20

PIETERMARITZBURG:
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Cloudy with isolated morning showers and rain, becoming fine from late morning. Minimum/Maximum: 05/16

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