Weather warning: Severe thunderstorms with large HAIL and strong winds to affect Eastern Cape

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Severe Weather Alerts

IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS:

A. Yellow Level 1 warning for damaging winds leading to disruption in small harbours and ports and can cause difficulty in navigation between Plettenberg and Port Edward by evening and persisting along the Wild Coast.

B. A Yellow level 1 warning for severe thunderstorms with large hail and strong winds leading to damage to property, livestock and endangering lives are expected over the north-eastern parts of Eastern Cape.

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FIRE DANGER WARNINGS:

Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the Tsantsabane and Gamagara Local Municipalities of the Northern Cape as well as Beaufort-West and Prince Albert local municipalities of the Western Cape

ADVISORIES:

NIL

Temperature and UVB forecast

Gauteng:

Temperature: Partly cloudy and cool with isolated showers and thundershowers.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Very High.

Mpumalanga:

Temperature: Cloudy in the east with morning fog along the Escarpment, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers. It will be hot in places in the Lowveld.

Limpopo:

Temperature: Cloudy in the east with drizzle and morning fog along the Escarpment, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated thundershowers in the extreme south-west.

North-West Province:

Temperature: Partly cloudy and cool to warm with scattered showers and thundershowers but isolated in the extreme east.

Free State:

Temperature: Partly cloudy and cool with scattered showers and thundershowers. It will be warm in places in the south.

Northern Cape:

Temperature: Fine over the central parts, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated showers and thundershowers, but scattered over the extreme north-eastern parts. It will be cool in places in the west.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong north to north-westerly, but light to moderate westerly to southwesterly east of Still Bay.

Western Cape:

Temperature: Partly cloudy and cool with isolated showers and rain, except in the north-east, but scattered along the southwest coast and adjacent interior. It will be warm in the extreme east as well as along the south-coast.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be light southerly in the south but strong north-westerly along the west coast becoming moderate to fresh south-westerly but strong in the south by evening

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: High.

Eastern Cape:

The Western half – Partly cloudy and warm with isolated showers and thundershowers. It will be hot in places along the coast and adjacent interior.

The Western half -Wind: The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh westerly to south-westerly.

The Eastern half – Partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers. It will be hot in places along the coast.

The Eastern half – Wind: The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong easterly to north-easterly, becoming moderate to fresh south-westerly by evening.

Kwazulu-Natal:

Temperature: Morning fog patches over the interior, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot. Isolated showers and thundershowers are expected

Wind: The wind along the coast will be Moderate to fresh northeasterly, becoming strong in places at times.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Very High.

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