News24 | Saturday’s weather: Disruptive rain in parts of Northern, Western and Eastern Cape

Partly cloudy, cold to warm temperatures are forecast across most of the country with rain and thunderstorms in six provinces.

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While it will be partly cloudy, cold to warm across the country, the South African Weather Service has issued warnings for severe thunderstorms and disruptive rain in parts of the Northern Cape and Western Cape, with heavy downpours in some parts of the Eastern Cape.

Impact-based warnings

Yellow level 2 warning for severe thunderstorms with heavy downpours, hail, excessive lightning, and strong winds. This may lead to localised flooding of settlements, roads, and bridges in the eastern parts of the central and eastern Northern Cape, as well as the Beaufort West Municipality in the Western Cape.

There’s also a Yellow level 2 warning for disruptive rain with heavy downpours, causing localised flooding of settlements, roads, and bridges in the western parts of the Eastern Cape, persisting into 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-related impacts. Levels 2 and 6 are high, level 5 is medium, and levels 4 and 8 are low.

The weather in your province

Gauteng: Fine in the morning, becoming partly cloudy and cool.

Pretoria: 11 – 23°
Johannesburg: 9 – 22°

Vereeniging: 9 – 22°

Mpumalanga: Morning fog patches over the southern parts, otherwise fine and cool, but warm in the Lowveld.

Mbombela: 10 – 24°

Limpopo: Fine and cool to warm.

Polokwane: 10–23°

North West: Partly cloudy and cool, becoming cloudy in the afternoon with isolated showers and thundershowers in the west.

Mahikeng: 8 – 24°

Vryburg: 10 – 24°

Free State: Partly cloudy and cool, becoming cloudy in the afternoon with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers, except in the east.

Bloemfontein: 9 – 23°

Welkom: 11– 23°

Northern Cape: Cloudy, windy, and cool to warm, with scattered showers and thundershowers, becoming widespread in the southeastern parts. In the western parts it will be partly cloudy and cool to warm.

Upington: 16 – 26°

Kimberley: 11 – 23°

Western Cape: Partly cloudy in the extreme west where it will be cool to warm, otherwise cloudy and cold with isolated showers, but scattered along the eastern parts of the south coast and eastern interior. Winds will be light southerly to south-westerly along the south coast in the morning, becoming moderate south-easterly, fresh to strong along the west and south-west coast.

Cape Town: 14 – 20°

Western half of the Eastern Cape: cloudy and cool to cold with widespread showers and rain, but showers and thundershowers in the north.

Eastern half of the Eastern Cape: fine to partly cloudy and cool, becoming cloudy from the west with scattered showers and thundershowers.

Gqeberha: 16 – 18°

Ku Gompo City: 16 – 21°

KwaZulu-Natal: Morning fog over the interior, otherwise fine and warm, becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon with isolated showers and thundershowers, except in the north-west. Winds will be light to moderate south-easterly north of Cape St. Lucia, otherwise moderate to fresh easterly to north-easterly.

Durban: 17 – 25°

Richard’s Bay: 13 – 27°

Pietermaritzburg: 8 – 25°

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