Today’s weather forecast, Tuesday, 31 January 2023

Weather forecast data provided by the South African Weather Service. For a detailed forecast of your province, click here.

Severe Weather Alerts

IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS:

Yellow Level 2 Warning: Severe Thunderstorms with heavy downpours, damaging winds and excessive lightning that may result in localized flooding of susceptible informal settlements and low-lying roads/areas are expected over the western areas of North West and Free State Provinces. Poor driving conditions are also likely in these areas due to pooling of water on roads, reduced visibility and localiZed service disruptions.

FIRE DANGER WARNINGS:

Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the Khai-Ma municipality in the Northern Cape.

ADVISORIES:

NIL

Temperature and UVB forecast

Gauteng:

Temperature: Partly cloudy and warm with scattered showers and thundershowers.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: High.

Mpumalanga:

Temperature: Cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers, but scattered on the Highveld.

Limpopo:

Temperature: Cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers but scattered in the south.

North-West Province:

Temperature: Cloudy becoming partly cloudy and warm, with scattered showers and thundershowers.

Free State:

Temperature: Cloudy becoming partly cloudy and cool to warm, with scattered showers and thundershowers.

Northern Cape:

Temperature: Very hot in the north, otherwise partly and warm to hot with isolated but scattered thundershowers in the north east

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

Western Cape:

Temperature: Cloudy with fog along the west coast in the morning, otherwise partly cloudy to fine and warm to hot.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be light to moderate northerly to north-westerly north of Table Bay becoming south-westerly from the afternoon and reaching fresh to strong between Saldanha Bay and Table Bay towards the evening, otherwise strong to gale force easterly to south-easterly and moderating towards the end of the period over the south coast.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Extreme.

Eastern Cape:

The Western half – Cloudy at first with light rain in places along the coast, otherwise partly cloudy warm with isolated showers and thundershowers over interior but scattered in the north.

The Western half -Wind: The wind along the coast will be Moderate to fresh north easterly.

The Eastern half -Cloudy with in places south of escarpment with light rain and mist in morning, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers but scattered in the north.

The Eastern half – Wind: The wind along the coast will be Moderate to fresh easterly.

Kwazulu-Natal:

Temperature: Morning fog patches, otherwise cloudy and cool but warm in places in the north with scattered showers and thundershowers.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be Moderate to fresh easterly to north-easterly.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Very High.

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