Today’s weather forecast, Thursday, 9 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. Yellow Level 2 warning: Severe thunderstorms resulting in localised flooding and damage to settlements and property is expected over the Free State, eastern and northern parts of the Northern Cape and the North West, excluding the north-eastern parts. Similar stormy conditions are also expected over Gauteng, southern and eastern Limpopo, Highveld and escarpment of Mpumalanga as well as western and southern parts of KwaZulu-Natal, including central parts of the Eastern Cape.

B. Orange level 5 warning: Disruptive rainfall leading to flooding of bridges, roads and settlements is expected over the eastern parts of the Eastern Cape and the south-western parts of KwaZulu-Natal.

FIRE DANGER WARNINGS:

NIL

ADVISORIES:

NIL

Temperature and UVB forecast

Gauteng:

Temperature: Cloudy and cool to warm with widespread showers and thundershowers

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: High.

Mpumalanga:

Temperature: Cloudy and warm to cool with widespread showers and thundershowers.

Limpopo:

Temperature: Cloudy and warm to hot with scattered showers and thundershowers, but widespread in the south and east.

North-West Province:

Temperature: Cloudy and warm with widespread showers and thundershowers.

Free State:

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

Northern Cape:

Temperature: Cloudy and warm with scattered to widespread showers and thundershowers, otherwise partly with isolated thundershowers over the central parts. Morning fog can be expected along the coast, where it will be cool.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be light south-westerly becoming fresh southerly to south-easterly from the afternoon.

Western Cape:

Temperature: Fine in the west, otherwise cloudy to partly cloudy and warm to hot with morning rain along the south coast.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly to south-easterly but strong along the south-west coast.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Extreme.

Eastern Cape:

The Western half – Cloudy and cool with scattered showers and thundershowers, but isolated in the west.

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

The Eastern half -Cool in places along the coast, otherwise cloudy and cold with widespread showers and thundershowers, but scattered in the west.

The Eastern half – Wind: The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly, becoming south-easterly in the evening.

Kwazulu-Natal:

Temperature: Partly cloudy in the north at first, otherwise cloudy and warm to cool in the south and west with widespread showers and thundershowers but scattered in the north-east.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be moderate north-easterly in the north in the morning, otherwise moderate to fresh southerly to south-westerly.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: High.

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