Severe thunderstorms are forecast in Mpumalanga.
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Wet conditions are expected in at least five provinces while severe thunderstorms, which may lead to flooding, are forecast in Mpumalanga, according to the South African Weather Service (SAWS).
Impact-based warnings
Yellow Level 1 warning: Severe thunderstorms resulting in localised flooding of low-lying areas, roads and bridges, as well as large amounts of small hail and damaging winds, which may lead to damage to settlements and infrastructure over most parts of Mpumalanga, except the Lowveld.
Weather forecast for today & tomorrow: 12 – 13 July 2026.
Cloudy with isolated to scattered rain/showers along the east & south coasts. Elsewhere, partly cloudy & cold to cool. Tomorrow, isolated showers & storms are expected over MP, southern LP, GP, KZN & eastern EC.
#SAWS pic.twitter.com/l0hHTd0Iej— SA Weather Service (@SAWeatherServic) July 12, 2026
In the SAWS’s colour-coded weather warning system, yellow indicates a moderate risk of impact that requires caution and awareness, while orange indicates that a higher-risk impact is expected, requiring increased attention and preparation.
The SAWS uses the numbers to indicate the likelihood of weather-based impacts occurring. Levels 2 and 6 are high, level 5 is medium, and levels 4 and 8 are low.
The weather in your province
Gauteng: Morning frost in places, otherwise partly cloudy and cool with isolated showers and thundershowers. It will be cold in places.
Pretoria: 6°C — 20°C
Johannesburg: 4°C — 18°C
Vereeniging: 2°C — 19°C
Mpumalanga: Morning fog patches in the south and the escarpment, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to cold with isolated showers and thundershowers, but warm in the extreme eastern parts. Morning frost can be expected in places on the Highveld.
Mbombela: 10°C — 20°C
Ermelo: 3°C — 18°C
Emalahleni: 4°C — 18°C
Standerton: 0°C — 19°C
Skukuza: 11°C — 25°C
Limpopo: Morning fog patches in places, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers in the southern parts.
Polokwane: 7°C — 21°C
Phalaborwa: 10°C — 23°C
Tzaneen: 6°C — 22°C
Musina: 13°C — 26°C
Lephalale: 6°C — 26°C
Mokopane: 7°C — 24°C
North West: Fine and cool.
Klerksdorp: 2°C — 21°C
Potchefstroom: 2°C — 21°C
Mahikeng: 5°C — 21°C
Rustenburg: 5°C — 21°C
Vryburg: 2°C — 22°C
Free State: Morning fog patches in the east, otherwise fine and cool to cold but partly cloudy in the north with isolated showers and thundershowers.
Bloemfontein: 1°C — 19°C
Welkom: 2°C — 20°C
Bethlehem: 3°C — 17°C
Northern Cape: Fine and cool but cold in the south. The wind along the coast will be light south-westerly.
Upington: 2°C — 22°C
Kimberley: 1°C — 22°C
De Aar: 5°C — 18°C
Alexander Bay: 9°C — 18°C
Springbok: 8°C — 19°C
Calvinia: 4°C — 20°C
Sutherland: -2°C — 17°C
Western Cape: Cloudy with morning mist over the southern and western parts, otherwise fine to partly cloudy and cold to cool.
The wind along the coast will be light to moderate easterly to south-easterly, becoming southerly to south-westerly along the south coast from the afternoon.
Cape Town: 12°C — 17°C
Vredendal: 8°C — 22°C
Riversdale: 8°C — 21°C
George: 8°C — 19°C
Worcester: 8°C — 24°C
Beaufort West: 5°C — 19°C
Oudtshoorn: 5°C — 19°C
Western half of the Eastern Cape: Cloudy with fog over the interior in the morning, otherwise partly cloudy and cool, becoming fine in the south from the afternoon.
The wind along the coast will be light to moderate north-easterly, but light and variable in places.
Eastern half of the Eastern Cape: Cloudy with fog patches over the interior in the morning, otherwise partly cloudy and cool with isolated showers and thundershowers in places south of the escarpment, but cold in the north.
The wind along the coast will be light and variable in places in the south in the morning, otherwise light to moderate north-easterly, reaching fresh in places.
Gqeberha: 8°C — 20°C
Makhanda: 8°C — 19°C
Nxuba (Adelaide): 4°C — 19°C
Robert Sobukwe Town (Graaf-Reinet): 3°C — 19°C
KuGompo (East London): 10°C — 20°C
Port St Johns: 12°C — 21°C
Mthatha: 6°C — 19°C
Komani: 5°C — 17°C
Qonce: 7°C — 19°C
KwaZulu-Natal: Cloudy with morning fog over the interior, otherwise partly cloudy and cold to cool with isolated showers and rain.
The wind along the coast will be light to moderate easterly to south-easterly, becoming north-easterly south of Durban by late morning.
Durban: 14°C — 21°C
Richards Bay: 15°C — 22°C
Pietermaritzburg: 8°C — 19°C
Ladysmith: 8°C — 19°C
*This weather report was written with the support of Toqan AI.
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