Regional weather forecast, Friday, 20 January 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:

Yellow level 2 Severe thunderstorms with possible damaging winds, large hail and heavy downpours resulting in localised flooding, may lead to damage to property in places over the eastern parts of the Eastern Cape and the western parts of KwaZulu-Natal.

FIRE DANGER WARNINGS:

NIL

ADVISORIES:

NIL

Temperature and UVB forecast

Gauteng:

Temperature: Hot in the north, otherwise partly cloudy and warm with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Very High.

Mpumalanga:

Temperature: Morning fog patches along the escarpment, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers on the Highveld but scattered in the extreme south. It will be very hot in the Lowveld.

Limpopo:

Temperature: Partly cloudy and hot with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers in the extreme south-west.

North-West Province:

Temperature: Partly cloudy and hot, with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers.

Free State:

Temperature: Partly cloudy and hot, with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers but scattered in the east.

Northern Cape:

Temperature: Cloudy along the coast in the morning with fog patches, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot but very hot over the northern interior. Isolated afternoon thundershowers are expected in the north-east.

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

Western Cape:

Temperature: Hot in places over the interior, otherwise fine and cool to warm but partly cloudy in the east.

Wind: Morning fog patches expected along the west coast where it will be cloudy, spreading into along the south coast by the evening and the wind will be light southerly to south-easterly becoming south-westerly to westerly from the afternoon.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Extreme.

Eastern Cape:

The Western half – Partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers in the extreme east.

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

The Eastern half -Partly cloudy and warm to hot with scattered afternoon showers and thundershowers, but isolated in the extreme west.

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

Kwazulu-Natal:

Temperature: Partly cloudy and warm but hot to very hot in the north. Scattered afternoon showers and thundershowers are expected in the south and west, otherwise isolated except in the north-east.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be Moderate north-easterly in the north, otherwise southerly to south-easterly.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: High.

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