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Thursday's weather: Warm day, but expect some thunderstorms in several regions

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Warm to hot conditions are expected in parts of South Africa.
Warm to hot conditions are expected in parts of South Africa.
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The South African Weather Service issued a yellow level 2 warning for damaging winds between Cape Point and Mossel Bay.

A yellow level 2 warning for severe thunderstorms was issued for the Hantam and Karoo Hoogland local municipalities in the  Northern Cape, as well as the Cape Winelands district municipality, Swartland and Cape Agulhas local municipalities in the Western Cape until Friday morning.

There is an orange level 5 warning for severe thunderstorms over the West Coast district municipality and Witzenberg local municipality in the Western Cape from the afternoon into Friday morning.

Additionally, a yellow level 2 warning was issued for disruptive rainfall, leading to localised flooding along the Wild Coast and adjacent interior in the Eastern Cape.

The weather in your region:

Gauteng will be fine and warm, becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon.

The expected UVB sunburn index is very high.

It will be partly cloudy and warm in Mpumalanga, but cool along the escarpment, becoming cloudy in the east in the evening.

Light rain will occur in parts of the province.

Partly cloudy and warm to hot conditions will prevail in Limpopo, with drizzle in places.

The North West will be partly cloudy and warm, with isolated showers and thundershowers over the western parts.

It will be cloudy in the east of the Free State, with morning fog patches, otherwise it will be partly cloudy and warm, with isolated showers and thundershowers over the western parts and along the Lesotho border.

The Northern Cape will be partly cloudy and warm to hot, with isolated showers and thundershowers, but scattered showers over the south-western parts.

It will be fine in the west in the morning, with mist along the coast.

Other parts of the province will be partly cloudy to cloudy and cool to warm, with isolated showers and thundershowers.

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

Mist will occur around the west coast of the Western Cape at first.

The province will be cloudy and cool, with scattered to widespread showers and thundershowers.

It will be windy over the Central Karoo.

The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh northerly north of Saldanha Bay, becoming fresh to strong southerly to south-easterly from the afternoon.

Strong to gale force south-easterly to easterly winds will occur between Cape Point and Cape Agulhas in the morning.

The expected UVB sunburn index is high.

It will be cloudy and cool, with scattered showers and thundershowers in the Eastern Cape.

Light rain is expected in places along the south coast.

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

Morning fog patches will occur in the southern interior of KwaZulu-Natal.

It will be partly cloudy to cloudy and cool, but warm in places in the north. Isolated showers and thundershowers are expected.

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

The expected UVB sunburn index is very high.

Thursday's temperatures
Thursday's temperatures.

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