Wednesday’s weather: Cold front persists in Western Cape, but fine to cool conditions elsewhere | News24

The cold front lashing the Western Cape continues to persist and the province has issued multiple warnings for disruptive rain and a high chance of flooding, according to the South African Weather Service. 

Fine to cool and cold conditions are expected elsewhere in the county.

Impact-based warnings

A Yellow Level 2 warning for damaging winds resulting in damage to settlements and difficult driving conditions has been issued for over the western and central interior of the Eastern Cape.

A Yellow Level 4 warning has been issued for damaging winds over the southern parts of the Namakwa in the Northern Cape, Central Karoo, the Cape Winelands, Overberg and western parts of the Garden Route in the Western Cape, and will persist until late morning on Thursday. 

A Yellow Level 4 warning has been issued for damaging winds along the coast between Lambert’s Bay and Mossel Bay until late Thursday.

A Yellow Level 4 warning has been issued for damaging waves leading to difficulty in navigation at sea between Lambert’s Bay and Plettenberg Bay.

An Orange Level 6 warning for waves leading to damage of coastal infrastructure and disruption of small harbours has been issued between Table Bay and Struisbaai on Wednesday evening into Thursday morning.

An Orange Level 6 warning has been issued for disruptive rain, leading to flooding and possible mudslides in the City of Cape Town, Drakenstein and Stellenbosch municipalities of the Western Cape.

A Yellow Level 4 warning for disruptive rain, leading to damage of roads and bridges, has been issued over the West Coast, northern Cape Winelands and western Overberg districts in the Western Cape, persisting into Thursday.

Advisories 

A series of significant cold fronts are expected to affect the southern parts of the country up to Friday.

The public and small stock farmers are advised that intermittent heavy downpours, snowfalls, very cold conditions, strong coastal and interior winds, and very rough seas are expected.

The weather in your region

Morning frost is expected in Gauteng, otherwise fine and cold.

The expected UVB sunburn index is high.

Mpumalanga and Limpopo can expect fine and cool temperatures, but it will be warm in the Lowveld.

Fine and cool conditions are forecast in the North West.

The Free State will be fine and cold to cool. It will be windy over the extreme south.

Overcast to cloudy conditions and cool to cold temperatures are expected in the southern parts of the Northern Cape with isolated showers in the extreme south-west in the morning.

Otherwise, it will be fine and cold to cool.

It will be windy over the extreme south.

The wind along the coast will be a moderate to fresh northerly to north-westerly.

The Western Cape can expect cloudy to partly cloudy and very cold to cold temperatures, with isolated to scattered showers and rain, over the south-western parts, west coast and the central interior during the morning.

There will be light rain in the south-western mountains from the afternoon, becoming moderate in the evening, with light rain forecast over the south-western parts.

The wind along the coast will be a strong to near gale force north-westerly in the southern region, but moderate to strong north-westerly along the south coast.

The expected UVB sunburn index is low.

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Partly cloudy conditions are expected in the Eastern Cape. Otherwise, it will be fine, windy and cool, but cold in the north.

The wind along the coast will be a moderate to fresh westerly, becoming moderate north-westerly in the afternoon.

The wind along the coast of the eastern half of the province will be moderate to fresh south-westerly, becoming light north-westerly in the afternoon.

KwaZulu-Natal will be fine.

The wind along the coast will be a moderate north-westerly in the morning but southerly to south-easterly from late morning, becoming moderate to fresh northerly to north-easterly by the late afternoon.

The expected UVB sunburn index is high.