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Here’s the weather outlook for South Africa’s nine provinces.
The South African Weather Service has issued a warning for severe thunderstorms bringing heavy downpours and damaging winds expected in parts of South Africa.
SEVERE WEATHER ALERTS
IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS
A. Yellow level 2 warning: Severe Thunderstorms leading to localised flooding of susceptible roads, low-lying areas and bridges, as well as localised damage to infrastructure and settlements (informal) is expected over the North West, Free State, Gauteng and the extreme north-east of Northern Cape, as well as in places over Limpopo and Mpumalanga.
B. Yellow level 2 warning: Disruptive rainfall leading to localised flooding of susceptible formal/informal settlements or roads, low-lying areas and bridges is expected over the City of Cape Town, as well as Stellenbosch and Drakenstein municipalities of the Western Cape.
C. Yellow level 2 warning: Damaging wind and waves leading to disruption of ports/small harbours activities for a short period of time and difficulty in navigation at sea is expected between Cape Columbine and Plettenberg Bay on Saturday, spreading to Alexander Bay on Monday morning, these conditions will continue until Thursday morning (18-23/04/2026)
D. Yellow level 1 warning: damaging winds resulting in localised damage to informal and formal settlements, as well as power and communication interruptions, are expected in places over Dr Beyers Naude, Inxuba Yethemba, Enoch Mgijima, Emalahleni, Walter Sisulu and Senqu Local Municipalities of the Eastern Cape, as well as over the Kamiesberg, Hantam, Karoo Hoogland municipalities in Namakwa district of the Northern Cape and in places of the Cape Winelands district and Laingsburg and Beaufort West municipality of the Western Cape.
FIRE DANGER WARNINGS
Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the Kagisano-Molopo Local Municipality of North West, west of the Free State, and Dikgatlong, Phokwane, and Ubuntu Local Municipality of Northern Cape, as well as Dr Beyers Naude, Inxuba Yethemba, Enoch Mgijima, Emalahleni and Walter Sisulu Local Municipalities of the Eastern Cape.
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Weather conditions and UVB forecast in South Africa’s provinces
Gauteng
Gauteng can expect cloudy and cool with widespread showers and thundershowers. It will be warm in the extreme south.
The expected UVB Sunburn Index is Moderate
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga, the Place of the Rising Sun, can expect cloudy and cool to warm with scattered showers and rain, but isolated in the Lowveld, where it will be hot in places.
Limpopo
In Limpopo, cloudy and warm with widespread showers and thundershowers, but scattered in the central parts. It will be isolated in the Lowveld and Limpopo Valley
North West
North West, known as Bokone Bophirima in Setswana, can expect cloudy, windy and cool to warm, with scattered showers and thundershowers.
Free State
In Free State, Cloudy, windy and cool to warm, with scattered showers and thundershowers.
Northern Cape
Partly cloudy, windy and cool to warm, with isolated showers and thundershowers, but scattered in the north-east where it will be cloudy. The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong north-westerly.
Western Cape
Cloudy to partly cloudy and cool in the east and north-east, elsewhere mostly cloudy and cold with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers, but widespread in the south-west where heavy downpours may be expected. It will be windy over the central and north-eastern interior, mainly from late morning. The wind along the coast will be strong north-westerly but near gale to gale force westerly to north-westerly in the south-west, spreading to Plettenberg Bay in the evening.
The expected UVB sunburn index is Low
Eastern Cape
The Western half: Fine and cool to warm, becoming partly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers in the east. It will be windy in the north. The wind along the coast will be Moderate north-easterly, becoming light and variable in the afternoon, but fresh to strong southwesterly by late evening.
The Eastern half: Cloudy in places south of the escarpment, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm, becoming cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers. It will be windy in the north. The wind along the coast will be Moderate north-easterly, becoming light and variable in the afternoon, but fresh to strong southwesterly by late evening.
KwaZulu-Natal
Morning fog patches over the interior, otherwise cloudy to partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers but scattered over the extreme northern parts. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh northerly to north-easterly becoming light and variable in the extreme south by the evening.
The expected UVB Sunburn Index is Moderate
Forecast data provided by the South African Weather Service.
SA People Weather Writer
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