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Today’s weather forecast, Monday, 27 February 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:

A. A Yellow level 2 warning for disruptive rainfall leading to localised flooding of susceptible informal settlements, low-lying roads and low-lying bridges, poor driving conditions due to pooling of water on roads and reduced visibility, closure of low-lying roads and difficult driving conditions on dirt roads is expected over the Vhembe and Mopani Districts of Limpopo and the Ehlanzeni District of Mpumalanga.

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FIRE DANGER WARNINGS:

Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the central, eastern and northern parts of the Northern Cape.

ADVISORIES:

A heat wave with persistently high temperatures is expected over the Dawid Kruiper and Kai !Garib municipalities of the Northern Cape until Thursday.

Temperature and UVB forecast

Gauteng:

Temperature: Partly cloudy and warm with isolated evening thundershowers in the south.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Extreme.

Mpumalanga:

Temperature: Cloudy and cool with morning fog patches along the escarpment, otherwise partly cloudy and warm with isolated showers and thundershowers but scattered in the Lowveld and along the escarpment.

Limpopo:

Temperature: Cloudy in the east, otherwise partly cloudy and warm with isolated showers and thundershowers, except over the western parts, but scattered in the Lowveld and along the escarpment.

North-West Province:

Temperature: Fine and hot to very hot, becoming partly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers, except in the extreme north-east.

Free State:

Temperature: Fine and hot to very hot, becoming partly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers.

Northern Cape:

Temperature: Warm along the coast and the south-western high ground, otherwise fine and hot to very hot but extremely hot in the north. It will become partly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers in the north-east from the afternoon.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly.

Western Cape:

Temperature: Cloudy and cool along the south coast at first and in the evening, otherwise fine and warm to hot but very hot over the interior of the west coast.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh south-easterly becoming strong between Cape Point and Saldanha Bay in the afternoon.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Extreme.

Eastern Cape:

The Western half – Morning fog patches over the interior, otherwise partly cloudy to cloudy and cool along the coast, but fine and warm over the interior. Light evening rain is expected along the coast.

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

The Eastern half – Partly cloudy and warm with isolated thunderstorms along the escarpment in the afternoon. It will become cloudy south of the escarpment in the evening with fog patches over the interior.

The Eastern halfWind: The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh easterly.

Kwazulu-Natal:

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

Wind: The wind along the coast will be moderate south-easterly north of Richards at first, otherwise moderate to fresh easterly to north-easterly.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: High.

Stay up to date by viewing our daily Regional weather forecast here.


Adamu Andrew Michael

Adamu Andrew is a journalist from Tanzania. He holds a B.A in Mass Communication from St. Augustine University of Tanzania. He is currently working with The South African on syndication content like weather, daily horoscopes, soapies, On This Day, and newspaper front pages.

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