GARDEN ROUTE | KAROO NEWS - In the latest weather updated from the South African Weather Service, there are no weather warnings for the Southern Cape.
Severe weather alerts
Impact based weather warnings:
Yellow Level 2 Warning: Severe Thunderstorms resulting in damaging winds, excessive lightning, hail and heavy downpours leading to localised flooding of susceptible low-lying areas, roads and bridges, and localized damage to property and infrastructure, are expected over Gauteng, the eastern parts of the Free State and North West, South western Bushveld of Limpopo, western Highveld of Mpumalanga as well as the extreme western and north- eastern parts of KwaZulu Natal.
Yellow Level 2 Warning: Disruptive Rainfall resulting in localised flooding of informal settlements, low-lying areas and bridges as well as dirt roads is expected in places over the Lowveld and Valley of Limpopo.
Yellow Level 1 Warning: Damaging wind and waves resulting difficulty in navigation at sea is expected between Alexander Bay and Cape Agulhas.
Fire danger warnings
Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the Western interior and central parts of the Northern Cape as well as the West Coast District Municipality of the Western Cape.
Provincial weather forecast:
Western Cape
Partly cloudy and warm with isolated light rain and showers along the coast and adjacent interior by the afternoon. It will cool along the south coast. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly, but strong to near gale south-easterly along the south-west coast, and moderate to fresh easterly.
Western half of the Eastern Cape
Cloudy in places along the coast and adjacent interior with isolated showers and rain, otherwise partly cloudy. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate south-easterly, becoming easterly in the afternoon.
Eastern half of the Eastern Cape
Cloudy and cool with scattered showers and rain, south of escarpment, otherwise
partly cloudy and warm with isolated thundershowers. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate south-westerly.
Gauteng
Cloudy and warm with scattered afternoon showers and thundershowers.
The UVB index: Moderate
Mpumalanga
Morning fog patches over the southern Highveld, otherwise cloudy and
cool to warm with scattered afternoon showers and thundershowers but isolated in the east.
Limpopo
Cloudy and warm with scattered showers and thundershowers but isolated over the central parts. It will be cool in places along the escarpment.
North West
Fine in the west at first, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot, with scattered afternoon showers and thundershowers but isolated in the west.
Free State
Partly cloudy with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers, except in the west where it will be fine in the morning.
Northern Cape
Fine and hot to very hot, becoming partly cloudy in the far east, with isolated showers and thundershowers in the extreme south-eastern parts. The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong south-easterly.
Kwazulu Natal
Morning fog patches in places over the interior, otherwise cloudy and cool to warm with scattered showers and thundershowers. The wind along the coast will be moderate south-easterly, becoming fresh in the north by afternoon.
Morning fog patches in places over the interior, otherwise cloudy and cool to warm with scattered showers and thundershowers. The wind along the coast will be moderate south-easterly, becoming fresh in the north by afternoon.
Long term weather outlook:
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