SAWS said heavy thunderstorms are expected in some parts of the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.
The South African Weather Services (SAWS) has issued severe weather warnings for several parts of the country for Monday.
The SAWS said heavy thunderstorms are expected in some parts of the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN).
Weather warning
A yellow level 2 warning was issued for the adverse weather conditions.
“Severe thunderstorms causing damage or loss to infrastructure, settlements (formal and informal), property, vehicles, livelihoods and livestock, as well as large amounts of small hail and excessive lightning in the southern region of the eastern half of the Eastern Cape. as the southern parts of Kwa-Zulu Natal.”
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The SAWS said cooler weather is also expected in Gauteng.
“Partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated showers and thunderstorms.”
Heat wave
While some parts of the country will experience wet weather conditions, the SAWS has also issued a warning for heatwave conditions.
“A heatwave with persistently high temperatures is expected to continue over Matatiele Local Municipality tomorrow (Monday) to Tuesday, and also over eastern parts of Kwa-Zulu Natal tomorrow.”
The weather service has also issued fire danger warnings for some parts of the country.
“Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected in most parts of the Northern Cape, the north-eastern parts of the Western Cape, the western parts of the Eastern Cape, the eastern parts of the North-Western Province and the far eastern parts of KwaZulu-Natal. .”
Checker levels
Meanwhile, dam levels continue to drop dramatically.
The weekly report from the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) shows that the national average dam level is 70%, compared to 85% in the same period last year.
The heavily affected dams are the Vaal Dam (31.5%), Allemanskraal (47.2%) and Fika Patso (49.6%), which supplies water to the larger Qwaqwa.
The level of South Africa’s giant Gariep Dam has also fallen to 69.6%, compared to 87.2% last year.
DWS said three dams in healthy condition are the Vaal River Barrage, which is at 95.3%; Vanderkloof, sitting at 91.2%; and Sterkfontein at the 97.7% level.
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Faizel Patel
www.citizen.co.za