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2009-11-16 10:00
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Johannesburg - Summer has not quite arrived yet.
The South African Weather Service (SAWS) said on Sunday another strong cold front, which would bring cold conditions and possible snow to the Drakensberg and Lesotho on Monday night, would cause temperatures in the interior of the country to drop from Tuesday.
The cold front, which entered the country from the southeast and had resulted in cold conditions over KwaZulu-Natal and parts of the Eastern Cape on Sunday, would keep maximum temperatures in Johannesburg and Pretoria below 20ºC until Friday.
Jan Vermeulen, a senior forecaster at the SAWS, said on Sunday that a strong surface high pressure system, which had formed southeast of the country on Sunday, would bring cold and moist air to the northeastern parts of the country on Monday and especially on Tuesday.
Rain, cold
"It was cold today already in large parts of KwaZulu-Natal and we expect snow tomorrow (Monday) over eastern parts of Lesotho, the higher-lying parts of the Eastern Cape and the southern Drakensberg in KwaZulu-Natal," he said.
The cold front would start moving over to the eastern parts of Mpumalanga and northern Limpopo on Monday, he said.
"By tomorrow (Monday), the cold front will bring rain to parts of KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga." By Tuesday, temperatures would also drop sharply in the interior and in Gauteng.
"More cold air will from Tuesday come in from the interior and Gauteng and the rest of the interior will therefore see windy and cloudy conditions with scattered showers and thunderstorms."
The minimum and maximum temperatures for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in Pretoria would be 12ºC/16ºC; 12ºC/17ºC; 13ºC/19ºC and 12ºC/21ºC. Johannesburg will have 10ºC/13ºC; 10ºC/14ºC; 11ºC/16ºC and 10ºC/18ºC.
The weather service also warned of cold and wet conditions over the higher lying parts of KwaZulu-Natal for Monday and Tuesday.
Temperatures in the interior were expected to start rising again on Friday.