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Today’s weather forecast, Monday, 13 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. An Orange level 9 warning for disruptive rain leading to widespread flooding of roads and settlements, danger to life due to fast flowing water, communities not accessible or cut-off, and mudslides and rockfalls is expected over the Mopani and Vhembe Districts of Limpopo as well as the Ehlanzeni District of Mpumalanga.

B. An Orange level 5 warning for disruptive rain leading to flooding of settlements, roads and bridges is expected over the eastern Highveld of Mpumalanga and the central and northern parts of Limpopo.

C. A yellow level 2 warning for disruptive rain leading to localised flooding of susceptible settlements and roads and difficult driving conditions is expected over the central and western Highveld of Mpumalanga and the western Bushveld of Limpopo.

FIRE DANGER WARNINGS:

Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected in the Kai !Garib and Kareeberg local municipalities of the Northern Cape.

ADVISORIES:

NIL

Temperature and UVB forecast

Gauteng:

Temperature: Cloudy and warm with scattered afternoon showers and thundershowers.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: High.

Mpumalanga:

Temperature: Cloudy and cool with scattered showers and thundershowers but widespread in the east. It will be warm to hot in the Lowveld.

Limpopo:

Temperature: Cloudy and warm with scattered showers and thundershowers but widespread in the east.

North-West Province:

Temperature: Cloudy in the east, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot, with isolated showers and thundershowers

Free State:

Temperature: Cloudy in the east, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm, with isolated showers and thundershowers, except in the extreme west.

Northern Cape:

Temperature: Morning fog patches along the coast, otherwise fine and warm to hot but very hot in the north.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh east to south-easterly along the south coast, otherwise light to moderate southerly to south-easterly, but moderate south-westerly north of Saldanha Bay from late morning.

Western Cape:

Temperature: Morning fog patches along the coastal and the adjacent interior, otherwise fine and warm to hot, but very hot in places over the interior and extremely hot in places in the Central Karoo District.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh east to south-easterly along the south coast, otherwise light to moderate southerly to south-easterly, but moderate south-westerly north of Saldanha Bay from late morning.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Extreme.

Eastern Cape:

The Western half – Partly cloudy and warm, but hot in places in the north-west.

The Western half -Wind: The wind along the coast will be Moderate to fresh south-easterly, becoming north easterly in the afternoon.

The Eastern half -Cloudy in places south of escarpment at first, otherwise partly cloudy and warm with isolated showers and thundershowers in the extremely east.

The Eastern halfWind: The wind along the coast will be Moderate south westerly at first, otherwise south easterly, but north easterly late afternoon.

Kwazulu-Natal:

Temperature: Partly cloudy and warm, becoming cloudy in the afternoon with scattered showers and thundershowers.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be Moderate easterly to north-easterly, becoming south-westerly in the south, spreading northwards.

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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