Weather warning issued for severe thunderstorms, heavy rains, damaging winds TODAY

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Severe Weather Alerts

IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS:

A. Yellow Level 2 Warning for Severe Thunderstorms resulting in localised flooding are expected over the City of Cape Town, southern Central Karoo districts, Witzenberg, Drakenstein and Stellenbosch municipalities.

B. Orange Level 6 Warning for Severe Thunderstorms resulting in heavy downpours and flash flooding as well as damaging winds leading to damage to infrastructure are expected in the Overberg and Garden Route districts municipalities of the Western Cape.

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FIRE DANGER WARNINGS:

NIL

ADVISORIES:

NIL

Temperature and UVB forecast

Gauteng:

Temperature: Partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated showers and thundershowers.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Extreme.

Mpumalanga:

Temperature: Cloudy at first with morning fog patches on the southern Highveld and along the escarpment, otherwise partly cloudy and warm with isolated showers and thundershowers, but scattered along the escarpment. It will be hot in places on the Lowveld.

Limpopo:

Temperature: Cloudy in the east at first, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated showers and thundershowers, except in the Lowveld.

North-West Province:

Temperature: Partly cloudy and warm to hot, with isolated showers and thundershowers except over the north-eastern parts.

Free State:

Temperature: Fine and warm, becoming partly cloudy over the central and the eastern parts with isolated showers and thundershowers over the extreme east.

Northern Cape:

Temperature: Fine and warm to hot but partly cloudy and cool with isolated showers and thundershowers over the southern parts in the afternoon.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh north-westerly becoming moderate westerly to south-westerly from late afternoon.

Western Cape:

Temperature: Cloudy and cool to warm with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers, but widespread over the eastern parts of the south coast.

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

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Very High.

Eastern Cape:

The Western half – Fine in places at first, otherwise partly cloudy and warm with isolated showers and rain, but scattered in the south where it will be cloudy and cool.

The Western half -Wind: The wind along the coast will be Fresh to strong westerly, becoming light to moderate from the evening.

The Eastern half – Fine and warm at first, otherwise partly cloudy with isolated showers and rain in places south of the escarpment in the afternoon, but scattered thundershowers in the north-east.

The Eastern half – Wind: The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong south-westerly, reaching strong in places in the south.

Kwazulu-Natal:

Temperature: Morning fog patches over the interior, otherwise partly cloudy and warm with scattered afternoon showers and thundershowers in the west and southern interior, otherwise isolated except in the north-east. T

Wind: he wind along the coast will be Moderate to fresh north-easterly, becoming moderate south-westerly south of Durban from mid-morning.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Very High.

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