Friday’s weather: Cool conditions across SA, with snow in Eastern Cape | News24

Light snowfall is forecast in parts of the Eastern Cape.

Cold conditions with morning frost are expected across several provinces, while the Western Cape and Eastern Cape will experience cloudy skies with light rain and isolated showers, according to the South African Weather Service (SAWS).

Light snowfall is forecast in the northern parts of the western half of the Eastern Cape.

Impact-based warnings

Yellow Level 2 warning: Damaging winds and waves along the KwaZulu-Natal coast, resulting in localised disruption of small harbours and ports, small vessels at risk of taking on water and capsizing, difficulty in navigation, and localised disruptions to beachfront activities.

In the SAWS 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 weather service 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 fine and cool, but warm in the extreme north.

Mpumalanga: Partly cloudy in the east, otherwise fine and cool to warm.

Limpopo: Partly cloudy in the east, otherwise fine and cool to warm.

North West: Fine and cool.

Free State: Fine and cold to cool.

Northern Cape: Partly cloudy with morning fog patches in the south, otherwise fine and cold to cool. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate southerly to south-easterly.

Western Cape: Cloudy with morning fog over the southern and western parts but with early morning light rain along the south-east coast, otherwise partly cloudy and cold to cool. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate easterly to south-easterly.

Eastern Cape: Cloudy in places along the coast and adjacent interior with isolated showers and rain in the morning in the western half, otherwise partly cloudy and cold.

Light snowfall is expected in the north at first. It will become fine in the afternoon.

Partly cloudy and cold with isolated showers and rain along the coast and adjacent interior in the eastern half, clearing up by late afternoon.

The wind along the coast will be light to moderate southerly, becoming light and variable from late morning in the west, and moderate to fresh south-westerly in the east, becoming light and variable in the afternoon.

KwaZulu-Natal: Morning and evening fog patches in places, otherwise partly cloudy and cool but cold in the west with isolated showers and rain along the coast.

The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly to south-westerly, reaching strong at times, and spreading to Kosi Bay by mid-morning.

*This weather report was written with the support of Toqan AI.