Weather warning: Disruptive rain and flooding expected over Eastern Cape TODAY

Weather forecast data provided by the South African Weather Service. For a detailed forecast of your province, click here. Read weather forecast for Thursday, 18 May 2023

Severe Weather Alerts

IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS:

Level 2 Warning for Disruptive Rain leading to localised flooding of susceptible settlements, roads, low lying areas and bridges is expected over the Kouga LM and Nelson Mandela Bay.

FIRE DANGER WARNINGS:

NIL

ADVISORIES:

1. NIL

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Temperature and UVB forecast

Gauteng:

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

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: High.

Mpumalanga:

Temperature: Cloudy in the morning, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers on the Highveld, but cold in places in the west.

Limpopo:

Temperature: Cloudy in the morning, otherwise partly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers in the west, spreading to the south-east in the afternoon.

North-West Province:

Temperature: Fine and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers over the east.

Free State:

Temperature: Partly cloudy and cool with isolated showers and thundershowers except over the north-western parts.

Northern Cape:

Temperature: Partly cloudy and cool to warm, with isolated showers and thundershowers over the southern parts where it will be cold becoming fine to partly cloudy from the afternoon.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be light and variable at first, otherwise moderate southerly to south-easterly.

Western Cape:

Temperature: Partly cloudy to cloudy and cold to cool with rain and isolated to scattered showers over the eastern half but widespread over the extreme east of the south coast. It will start to clear from the west in the afternoon.

Wind: Wind along the coast fresh to strong southerly, becoming light to moderate northerly to north-westerly between Betty’S Bay and Plettenberg Bay from the afternoon.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Moderate.

Eastern Cape:

The Western half – Cloudy and cold with isolated showers and rain but scattered in the south.

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

The Eastern half -Cloudy and cold with isolated showers and rain but scattered south of the escarpment. Light snowfalls expected over the southern Drakensberg at night.

The Eastern half -The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh south-westerly.

Kwazulu-Natal:

Temperature: Partly cloudy and cool, becoming cloudy from the south with widespread showers and thundershowers along the south coast, otherwise scattered, but isolated in the north.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be gentle westerly to north-westerly at first, otherwise moderate to fresh southerly to south-westerly.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Low.

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