A cold front is expected to hit at least three provinces, otherwise fine temperatures for the rest of SA. (Kinga Krzeminska/Getty Images)
The South African Weather Service has forecast a cold front over the weekend in at least three provinces, while the rest of the country can expect fine and cold to cool conditions.
Advisories
A significant cold front is expected to hit the Western Cape, Northern Cape and Eastern Cape from Saturday into Sunday.
The public and small stock farmers have been warned about the expected intermittent heavy downpours, snowfalls, cold conditions, strong coastal and interior winds as well as rough seas.
The weather in your region
Gauteng will have morning fog patches in the west, otherwise it will be fine and cool.
The expected UVB sunburn index is high.
Morning fog patches are expected in Mpumalanga over the Highveld and escarpment.
Otherwise, fine and cool temperatures are forecast but warm conditions are expected on the Lowveld where it will be partly cloudy at first.
Limpopo can expect partly cloudy conditions with morning fog patches on the Lowveld, otherwise it will be fine and cool to warm.
Fine and cool to warm temperatures are expected in the North West.
The Free State will be fine and cool.
Fine and cold to cool conditions are forecast in the Northern Cape but it will be cold in the south, becoming partly cloudy in the west.
The wind along the coast will be a moderate to fresh north-westerly in the morning, otherwise a moderate to fresh south-easterly is expected.
The Western Cape can expect cloudy conditions and cold to cool temperatures with isolated to scattered rain and showers over the western parts from the morning into the late afternoon when it will be windy.
The wind along the coast will be a moderate to fresh westerly to north-westerly east of Cape Agulhas, otherwise a fresh to strong northerly to north-westerly is expected.
The expected UVB sunburn index is low.
Partly cloudy and cool conditions are forecast in the western half of the Eastern Cape.
It will become cloudy in the south from the evening.
The wind along the coast will be a moderate to fresh south-westerly.
The eastern half of the province will be cold with morning frost in the north, otherwise fine and cool, becoming cloudy in the evening with fog in places south of the escarpment.
The wind along the coast will be a light north-westerly, becoming moderate to fresh south-westerly in the afternoon.
KwaZulu-Natal will have morning fog patches over the interior, otherwise fine and cool temperatures are expected but it will be warm in the north-east.
The wind along the coast will be light to moderate north-westerly until late morning, otherwise it will be moderate to fresh northerly to north-easterly but light to moderate in the south, becoming moderate to fresh south-westerly in the south from late afternoon.
The expected UVB sunburn index is high.
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