News24 | Tuesday’s weather: Heavy rain, strong winds in KZN; damaging waves in Western Cape

Severe weather conditions are expected to affect parts of the country, according to the South African Weather Service.

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The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has issued warnings for severe weather conditions affecting parts of the country.

Impact-based warnings:

Yellow Level 2: Severe thunderstorms are expected over the south-eastern parts of KwaZulu-Natal, which may result in heavy downpours, damaging winds, hail and excessive lightning.

These may lead to localised flooding of susceptible roads, low-lying areas and bridges, and localised damage to settlement and infrastructure.

Yellow Level 2: Damaging winds are expected along the coast and adjacent interior between Port Edward and Richards Bay, resulting in localised damage to settlements, disruption to beachfront activities, and difficulty in navigation.

Yellow Level 1: Damaging waves are expected between Cape Columbine and Cape Agulhas, leading to difficulty in navigation at sea and putting small vessels at risk of capsizing.

Conditions are expected to spread to Alexander Bay in the north and Plettenberg Bay in the east by the evening, and to persist into Thursday.

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.

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.

Weather in your province:

Gauteng: Partly cloudy and cool but warm in the north.

Pretoria: 13–25°C

Johannesburg: 11–23°C

Vereeniging: 10–23°C

Mpumalanga: Cloudy in the east with isolated showers and rain, otherwise partly cloudy and warm.

Mbombela: 15–27°C

Ermelo: 10–25°C

Emalahleni: 14–25°C

Standerton: 10–25°C

Skukuza: 17–31°C

Limpopo: Cloudy in the morning with isolated showers and thundershowers in the east, but scattered in the extreme north-east, otherwise partly cloudy and warm.

Polokwane: 13–23°C

Phalaborwa: 18–28°C

Tzaneen: 14–25°C

Musina: 17–28°C

Lephalale: 16–28°C
Mokopane: 13–24°C

North West: Morning fog patches in the north-east, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers.

Klerksdorp: 12–25°C

Potchefstroom: 11–24°C

Mahikeng: 12–25°C

Rustenburg: 12–24°C

Vryburg: 12–26°C

Free State: Partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers. It will be windy in the extreme east and extreme west.

Bloemfontein: 11–25°C

Welkom: 11–25°C

Bethlehem: 8–22°C

Northern Cape: Cloudy to partly cloudy and cool to cold, with isolated showers and rain over the western and southern parts in the morning but thundershowers in the east. It will become fine over the north and north-western parts in the evening.

The wind along the coast will be light to moderate westerly to south-westerly in the early morning, otherwise fresh to strong southerly to south-easterly.

Upington: 14–28°C

Kimberley: 13–26°C

De Aar: 12–25°C

Alexander Bay: 15–24°C

Springbok: 15–27°C

Calvinia: 14–28°C

Sutherland: 9–24°C

Western Cape: Cloudy to partly cloudy and cool to cold with isolated to scattered showers and rain over the western parts, spreading to the eastern parts from mid-morning and clearing in the west from the afternoon.

The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh westerly to south-westerly, reaching strong to near gale along the south and south-west coast in the morning.

Cape Town: 14–18°C

Vredendal: 14–20°C

Riversdale: 14–20°C

George: 14–17°C

Worcester: 13–19°C

Beaufort West: 16–21°C

Oudtshoorn: 13–21°C

Western half of the Eastern Cape: Warm in places at first, otherwise partly cloudy and cool, becoming cloudy and windy from the west with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers, showers and rain along the coast.

Eastern half of the Eastern Cape: Partly cloudy and warm with scattered showers and thundershowers, becoming cloudy, windy and cool from the west in the afternoon.

The wind along the coast will be strong south-westerly, but moderate north-westerly east of Algoa Bay at first. In the eastern half, it will be light to moderate northerly at first, otherwise moderate north-easterly, becoming strong south-westerly in the south midday, spreading to the east.

Gqeberha: 17–22°C

Makhanda: 14–26°C

Nxuba: 13–27°C

Robert Sobukwe Town: 14–28°C

KuGompo City: 18–30°C

Port St Johns: 16–29°C

Mthatha: 14–30°C

Komani: 11–26°C

Qonce: 15–30°C

KwaZulu-Natal: Morning fog over the interior, otherwise fine and warm to hot, becoming cloudy in the afternoon with isolated showers and thundershowers, but scattered in the south.

The wind along the coast will be moderate easterly to north-easterly, but fresh to strong north of Mandeni at times. It will become fresh to strong south-westerly from the south towards evening, reaching Richards Bay overnight.

Durban: 18–29°C

Richards Bay: 19–33°C

Pietermaritzburg: 10–32°C

Ladysmith: 8–30°C

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