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Very cold, wet and windy conditions are expected across South Africa this long weekend.

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Very cold, wet, and windy conditions are expected across South Africa this long weekend, with the South African Weather Service (SAWS) also warning of disruptive snow in parts of the Eastern Cape and damaging winds forecast for the Northern Cape.

Impact-based warnings

Orange Level 6: Disruptive snow leading to disruptions to livelihood, major traffic disruptions and some communities temporarily inaccessible over Dr Beyers Naudé, Chris Hani, Senqu, Elundini and Matatiele local municipalities of the Eastern Cape on Sunday into Tuesday.

Yellow Level 2: Disruptive snow leading to localised traffic disruptions, isolated loss of livestock and crops and localised disruptions to services in places over Koukamma, Kouga, Blue Crane, Raymond Mhlaba, Amahlathi, Intsika Yethu, Dr AB Xuma, Mhlontlo, and Mzimvubu local municipalities of the Eastern Cape on Sunday into Tuesday.

Yellow Level 2: Damaging winds leading to localised damage to settlements (formal and informal) as well as the risk of runaway fires over the central parts of the Northern Cape on Saturday.

Yellow Level 2: Disruptive rain leading to localised flooding of susceptible settlements, roads and bridges in places over the Koukamma Local Municipality of the Eastern Cape on Sunday.

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.

Advisory

Very cold, wet and windy conditions are expected over the southern parts of both the Free State, Northern Cape and the Eastern Cape, as well as the south-western parts of KwaZulu-Natal, from Sunday evening as a result of a combination of a cut-off low and the cold front, spreading to the rest of the Free State, with snowfall on Monday and Tuesday.

Farmers and the public in general are advised to take necessary precautions.

The weather in your province

Gauteng: Morning frost in places in the south, otherwise fine and cool to warm.

Pretoria: 6°C – 23°C

Johannesburg: 5°C – 23°C

Vereeniging: 3°C – 22°C

Mpumalanga: Cloudy and foggy conditions in the morning over the interior, otherwise partly cloudy and cool but warm in the Lowveld with isolated showers and rain over the escarpment and the Lowveld.

Mbombela: 12°C – 24°C

Ermelo: 7°C – 20°C

Emalahleni: 8°C – 21°C

Standerton: 2°C – 21°C

Skukuza: 13°C – 27°C

Limpopo: Cloudy to partly cloudy over the east at first, otherwise partly cloudy and cool but warm in places.

Polokwane: 8°C – 21°C

Phalaborwa: 12°C – 25°C

Tzaneen: 9°C – 23°C

Musina: 12°C – 24°C

Lephalale: 10°C – 25°C

Mokopane: 8°C – 23°C

North West: Fine and cool to warm, becoming partly cloudy over the southern parts.

Klerksdorp: 4°C – 25°C

Potchefstroom: 5°C – 25°C

Mahikeng: 7°C – 26°C

Rustenburg: 8°C – 26°C

Vryburg: 4°C – 25°C

Free State: Fine and cool, becoming partly cloudy.

Bloemfontein: 4°C – 24°C

Welkom: 4°C – 26°C

Bethlehem: 0°C – 22°C

Northern Cape: Fine to partly cloudy, windy and cool to warm. The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong southerly to south-easterly.

Upington: 9°C – 29°C

Kimberley: 6°C – 28°C

De Aar: 8°C –23°C

Alexander Bay: 8°C – 18°C

Springbok: 7°C –20°C

Calvinia: 3°C – 21°C

Sutherland: 1°C – 18°C

Western Cape: Cloudy in the south-west with light rain from the late morning spreading along the south coast in the afternoon, otherwise fine. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh west to south-westerly.

Cape Town: 11°C – 16°C

Vredendal: 7°C – 20°C

Riversdale: 9°C – 20°C

George: 9°C – 20°C

Worcester: 8°C – 18°C

Beaufort West: 8°C – 25°C

Oudtshoorn: 6°C – 21°C

Western half of the Eastern Cape: Morning fog in places in the south, otherwise partly cloudy, windy and warm, but cloudy and cool in places along the coast. Isolated showers and rain are expected west of Gqeberha at night.

The wind along the coast will be light to moderate northerly in places until mid-morning, otherwise fresh to strong south-westerly.

Eastern half of the Eastern Cape: Windy in the west, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm, but cloudy with fog in places south of the escarpment in the morning and again from the evening.

The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh north-easterly, becoming fresh to strong south-westerly from late morning.

Gqeberha: 10°C – 20°C

Makhanda: 10°C – 24°C

Nxuba (Adelaide): 6°C – 30°C

Robert Sobukwe Town (Graaf-Reinet): 6°C – 30°C

Ku Gompo (East London): 11°C – 24°C

Port St Johns: 13°C – 29°C

Mthatha: 9°C – 32°C

Komani: 7°C – 27°C

Qonce: 11°C – 26°C

KwaZulu-Natal: Morning fog over the interior, otherwise fine to partly cloudy and warm but cool in the south-west. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh northerly to north-easterly, becoming moderate south-westerly.

Durban: 15°C – 27°C

Richard’s Bay: 14°C – 29°C

Pietermaritzburg: 9°C – 29°C

Ladysmith: 6°C – 26°C

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



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