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Friday's weather: Cooler day across SA with thundershowers in several regions

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There will be rain and storms in some parts of South Africa.
There will be rain and storms in some parts of South Africa.
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The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has issued a yellow level 2 warning for damaging winds between Cape Point and Mossel Bay. 

A yellow level 1 wind warning was issued for the area between Plettenberg Bay and Mazeppa Bay for Friday, spreading to Port Edward and persisting along the Wild Coast until Saturday.

Residents of the Wild Coast, Ngquzani and Port St Johns can also expect disruptive rainfall. 

SAWS warned of severe yellow level 2 thunderstorms over the Hantam, Karoo Hoogland, Cape Winelands, Swartland and Cape Agulhas municipalities.

An orange level 5 alert for severe thunderstorms was announced for the West Coast District Municipality and Witzenberg Local Municipality in the Western Cape in the morning.

The weather in your region:

Gauteng will be partly cloudy and cool to warm. The expected UVB sunburn index is moderate.

Early morning fog patches will occur along the Mpumalanga and Limpopo escarpment.

Both provinces will be partly cloudy and warm to hot, with isolated showers and thundershowers in the east.

At first, it will be partly cloudy in the west of the North West, otherwise cloudy and cool to warm, with isolated showers and thundershowers. 

There will be scattered showers in the extreme north.

The Free State will be cloudy and cool to warm, with isolated showers and thundershowers. It will be windy in the west.

Cloudy, windy, and warm to hot conditions with isolated showers and thundershowers will prevail in the Northern Cape.

It will be misty along the coast in the morning, with light and variable wind.

The east of the Western Cape will initially be cloudy to partly cloudy, with isolated showers and thundershowers in the evening.

Scattered to widespread showers and thundershowers will occur over the western parts. Otherwise, the province will be fine to partly cloudy, and cool to warm.

Light showers will occur over parts of the south coast.

The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh north-westerly, but strong to gale force easterly along the south coast.

It will become fresh south-westerly to westerly from the west by the afternoon. The expected UVB sunburn index is high.

It will be partly cloudy and warm to hot, with isolated showers and thundershowers in the western half of the Eastern Cape.

The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong easterly to south-easterly.

Cloudy and cool to cold conditions, with scattered showers and thundershowers will prevail in the east of the province.

The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong easterly to north-easterly.

Morning fog can be expected over the KwaZulu-Natal interior.

Otherwise, the province will be cloudy and warm, but cool in places in the west.

Isolated showers and thundershowers are expected.

The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh easterly to north-easterly. The expected UVB sunburn index is moderate.

Friday's temperatures
Friday's temperatures.

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