WEATHER: Cold fronts expected TODAY, causing day time temperatures to drop

Shorts and slops or an umbrella? Here’s what the weather holds for every province in South Africa on Monday, 12 June 2023.

Severe weather alerts

IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS:

Yellow Level 2 Warning for Damaging Coastal winds and Waves, resulting in difficulty in navigation at sea is expected between Saldanha Bay and Mazeppa Bay

FIRE DANGER WARNINGS:

NIL

ADVISORIES:

A. A series of cold fronts is expected to affect the Western Cape, Northern Cape and Free State from Sunday throughout the week. This will cause day time temperatures to drop significantly from Monday. Maximum temperatures may be below 10 degree C in places over Namakwa District of the Northern Cape and interior of Western Cape, southern parts of Free State and northern high-ground of the Eastern Cape and throughout the week.

B. For small stock farmers: Very cold wet and windy conditions are expected over the southern parts of both Northern Cape, Free State and northern high-ground of the Eastern Cape.

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Conditions and UVB forecast

Gauteng

Temperature: Partly cloudy and cool with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Very High.

Mpumalanga

Temperature: Morning fog patches in the south-west, otherwise partly cloudy and cool with isolated showers and thundershowers, except in the Lowveld where it will be warm.

Limpopo

Temperature: Morning fog patches over the north-western and central parts, otherwise partly cloudy and warm with afternoon showers and thundershowers in the south-west and southern parts but fine in the east at first.

North West

Temperature: Partly cloudy, windy and cool with isolated showers and thundershowers.

Free State

Temperature: Partly cloudy, windy and cold to cool with isolated showers and thundershowers.

Northern Cape

Temperature: Foggy along the coast and adjacent interior in the morning where it will be cloudy and cold, otherwise fine and cool becoming cloudy with isolated evening showers and rain but scattered in the southern high-ground.

Wind: – The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh north-westerly becoming strong in the afternoon.

Western Cape

Temperature: Cloudy and cold to cool with scattered showers in the west and south but isolated in the north-west and the central interior.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be strong westerly to south-westerly, becoming fresh to moderate in the west by the evening.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Low.

Eastern Cape

The Western half: Fine in places over the interior at first, otherwise cloudy and cool to cold with light isolated showers and rain, but scattered along the coast, west of Port Alfred.

The Western half – Wind: The wind along the coast will be light to moderate north-westerly early morning, otherwise fresh to strong westerly, reaching near gale force between Oyster Bay and Gqeberha.

The Eastern half: Fine and cool in places, otherwise partly cloudy and cold, but very cold in places in the north. It will become cloudy from late morning with light isolated showers in the north-east.

The Eastern half – Wind: The wind along the coast will be light to moderate north-westerly early morning, otherwise fresh to strong south-westerly.

KwaZulu-Natal

Temperature: Fine and warm but cool in the west, becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon with isolated evening showers.

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

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: High.

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

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