Today’s weather forecast, Sunday, 29 January 2023

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Severe Weather Alerts

IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS:

A. Yellow Level-1 warning: Damaging wind resulting in difficulty in navigation at sea is expected between Hermanus and Lambert’s Bay, subsiding in the evening.

B. A yellow Level-1 warning: Severe thunderstorm with heavy downpours, strong 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 and reduced visibility and localised service disruptions due to increased lightning activity over the central and western parts of Limpopo, Gauteng,central and the high-veld and escarpment of Mpumalanga, as well as Central and eastern parts of both the Free state and the North West province

FIRE DANGER WARNINGS:

Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the extreme eastern part of the Northern Cape, south-west of the North West,central part of the Free State as well as Limpopo Valley and Western Bushveld.

ADVISORIES:

A.Very hot and humid weather leading to extremely uncomfortable conditions is expected in the Western Bushveld and Limpopo Valley

Temperature and UVB forecast

Gauteng:

Temperature: Partly cloudy and warm to hot with scattered showers and thundershowers

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Extreme.

Mpumalanga:

Temperature: Partly cloudy and warm, becoming cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers from the afternoon but isolated in the eastern Lowveld where it will be hot. It will be cool in places along the escarpment

Limpopo:

Temperature: Fine and warm to hot, becoming partly cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers from the afternoon but isolated in the Lowveld. It will be very hot in the Western Bushveld and Limpopo Valley.

North-West Province:

Temperature: Partly cloudy and hot to very hot, with isolated showers and thundershowers, but scattered in the east.

Free State:

Temperature: Fine in the west at first, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot, with isolated showers and thundershowers, but scattered in the east.

Northern Cape:

Temperature: Cloudy and cool along the coast with morning fog patches, otherwise fine and warm to hot but very hot in the north. It will become partly cloudy in the afernoon.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be strong southerly.

Western Cape:

Temperature: Cloudy and cool with early morning showers along the south coast and adjacent interior becoming partly cloudy and warm. It will be fine,warm and windy in the west.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong south-easterly. It will reach near gale between Lambert’s Bay and Hermanus from afternoon.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Extreme.

Eastern Cape:

The Western half – Cloudy and cool with isolated showers and rain in the morning, becoming partly cloudy from the west in the afternoon.

The Western half -Wind: The wind along the coast will be Moderate to fresh southerly at first, otherwise south easterly.

The Eastern half -Cold in places over the interior, otherwise cloudy and cool with scattered showers and thundershowers, but isolated thundershowers north of the escarpment.

The Eastern half – Wind: The wind along the coast will be Moderate to fresh south easterly, but southerly in the south during the morning.

Kwazulu-Natal:

Temperature: Morning fog over the western interior, otherwise cloudy and cool but warm in the extreme north. Scattered showers and thundershowers are expected, but isolated in the extreme north-east.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be Moderate to fresh south-westerly.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: High.

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