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The South African Weather Service has issued warnings of severe weather conditions for the Free State, North West, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Limpopo.
Impact-based warnings:
A. A yellow Level-2 warning: Severe thunderstorm with heavy downpours, damaging winds and lightning will result in localised flooding of susceptible informal settlements, low-lying roads/areas, poor driving conditions due to pooling of water on roads, reduced visibility and localised service disruptions due to increased lightning activity over the Free State, North West, eastern Highveld of Mpumalanga, extreme southern Limpopo and western parts of KwaZulu-Natal.
B. A yellow Level-4 warning: Disruptive rainfall will result in the localised flooding of susceptible informal settlements, low-lying roads/areas, poor driving conditions due to pooling of water on roads and reduced visibility over Gauteng, the extreme eastern parts of the North West, eastern parts of the Free state and western Highveld of Mpumalanga.
Fire danger warnings:
Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the northern parts of the Northern Cape, as well as the western parts of the North West and Free State.
The weather in your region:
Gauteng will be partly cloudy and warm with widespread showers and thundershowers.
The expected UVB sunburn index is high.
In Mpumalanga, it will be cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers, except in the extreme north-east, but scattered to widespread on the Highveld.
Limpopo will be cloudy and cool and warm with isolated showers and thundershowers, except on the Lowveld and Limpopo Valley, but scattered in the extreme south-west.
In the North West, it will be cloudy and warm, with scattered showers and thundershowers, but widespread in the south-east.
The Free State will be partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers but widespread in the east where it will be cloudy.
It will be extremely hot in the north in the Northern Cape, otherwise fine and warm to hot, becoming partly cloudy in the north-east with isolated thundershowers.
The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong southerly.
In the Western Cape, it will also be cloudy over the Overberg, south-eastern Cape Winelands, and Central Karoo districts in the morning, otherwise fine and warm to hot but cool along the south-western coastline. It will be windy between Hout Bay and Danger Point.
The wind along the coast will be light to moderate northerly to north-westerly north of Saldanha Bay, but strong easterly between Pearly Beach and Plettenberg Bay, otherwise strong to gale force southerly to south-easterly.
The expected UVB sunburn index is extreme.
The Eastern Cape will be fine and warm but cool along the coast, becoming partly cloudy with isolated thundershowers in the north-east.
The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh easterly.
The eastern half of the province will be cloudy and cool with isolated showers and thundershowers but scattered in the east.
The wind along the coast will be light north-easterly, becoming fresh by afternoon.
Cloudy and cool to warm conditions can be expected in the north of KwaZulu-Natal with scattered showers and thundershowers.
The wind along the coast will be moderate southerly to south-easterly in the north at first, otherwise easterly to north-easterly.
The expected UVB sunburn index is high.
