Last Updated on 4th January 2024 7:15 PM by AfriWX

THE REGIONAL WEATHER FORECAST

FOR TOMORROW 2024-01-05
ISSUED AT 1600 SAST
BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN WEATHER SERVICE. THIS FORECAST WILL BE UPDATED AT 0500 SAST.

SEVERE WEATHER ALERTS

IMPACT-BASED

WARNINGS

A. Yellow level 2 warning for Severe thunderstorms with possible heavy downpours, severe lightning, large hail and strong damaging winds are expected over western parts of KZN, the eastern Free state, and the eastern interior of the Eastern Cape. FIRE DANGER

WARNINGS

Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected in places over the Namakwa District in the Northern Cape, as well as Cederberg Municipality, Cape Winelands and Central Karoo in the Western Cape. ADVISORIES Extremely hot and uncomfortable humid conditions are expected over the Central and Little Karoo in the Western Cape.

PROVINCIAL WEATHER OVERVIEW

GAUTENG PROVINCE

Partly cloudy and warm to hot, with scattered showers and thundershowers. The expected UVB sunburn Index Very High

MPUMALANGA PROVINCE

Morning fog patches along the escarpment, otherwise cloudy and cool to warm with scattered showers and thundershowers, but isolated in the Lowveld.

LIMPOPO PROVINCE

Morning fog patches along the southern escarpment, otherwise cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers except in the extreme north-east. but scattered in the central to southern parts.

NORTH-WEST PROVINCE

Partly cloudy and warm to hot, with isolated showers and thundershowers, but scattered in the east, where it will be cloudy.

FREE STATE

Morning fog patches in the east, where it will be cloudy, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot, with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers, but scattered in the extreme east.

NORTHERN CAPE

Fine in the central interior and the southern parts until late morning, otherwise partly cloudy and hot to very hot, with isolated showers and thundershowers in the north and north-east. Cloudy with morning fog along the coast. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate north-westerly to westerly.

WESTERN CAPE

Morning fog along the west coast, and cloudy along the south coast, otherwise partly cloudy to fine and warm to hot but very hot over the eastern interior where it will be extremely hot in places. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh north-westerly but easterly along the south coast becoming south-westerly from the afternoon. The expected UVB sunburn Index Extreme

WESTERN HALF OF THE EASTERN CAPE

Cloudy with fog in places in the south at first, otherwise fine to partly cloudy and hot to very hot with isolated thundershowers in places in the northern and eastern interior. It will be warm along the coast. The wind along the coast will be Fresh to strong easterly, but moderate west of St Francis becoming moderate westerly from the west in the evening.

EASTERN HALF OF THE EASTERN CAPE

Fog in places south of escarpment at first, otherwise partly cloudy to cloudy and warm with isolated thundershowers over the central and northern interior, but scattered along the escarpment. The wind along the coast will be Fresh to strong north-easterly.

KWAZULU-NATAL

Morning fog over the interior, otherwise partly cloudy and warm with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers but scattered in the west. The wind along the coast will be gentle south-easterly in the extreme north at first, otherwise moderate easterly to north-easterly. The expected UVB sunburn Index Extreme

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TRAVELLERS WEATHER FORECAST

FOR TOMORROW 2024-01-05
ISSUED AT 1530 SAST
BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN WEATHER SERVICE.

SEVERE WEATHER ALERTS

IMPACT-BASED

WARNINGS

Yellow level 2 warning for Severe thunderstorms with possible heavy downpours, severe lightning,large hail and strong damaging winds are expected over western parts of KZN, the eastern Free state, and the eastern interior of the Eastern Cape.

FIRE DANGER

WARNINGS

Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected in places over the Namakwa District in the Northern Cape, as well as Cederberg Municipality, Cape Winelands and Central Karoo in the Western Cape.

ADVISORIES Extremely hot and uncomfortable humid conditions are expected over the Central and Little Karoo in the Western Cape.