News24 | Wednesday’s weather: Damaging waves in Western Cape, Northern Cape, KZN; hot in Gauteng

Damaging waves are expected in parts of the Western Cape, Northern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.

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The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has warned of damaging waves in parts of the Western Cape, Northern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.

Impact-based warnings

Yellow level 2 warning: Damaging winds and waves are expected along the coast of KwaZulu-Natal, resulting in disruptions to beachfront activities and difficulty navigating at sea.

Yellow level 1 warning: Damaging waves leading to difficulty in navigation at sea and small vessels at risk of capsizing are expected between Alexander Bay and Plettenberg Bay until Thursday.

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: Partly cloudy and warm, but hot in the extreme north.

Pretoria: 16°C — 29°C

Johannesburg: 15°C — 26°C

Vereeniging: 15°C — 25°C

Mpumalanga: Partly cloudy and cool to warm but cloudy with isolated rain and showers in the east.

Mbombela: 14°C — 24°C

Ermelo: 10°C — 23°C

Emalahleni: 15°C — 27°C

Standerton: 10°C — 26°C

Skukuza: 19°C — 27°C

Limpopo: Partly cloudy and warm but cloudy with isolated rain and showers in the south-east.

Polokwane: 16°C — 27°C

Phalaborwa: 20°C — 28°C

Tzaneen: 16°C — 26°C

Musina: 19°C — 33°C

Lephalale: 14°C — 32°C

Mokopane: 14°C — 29°C

North West: Fine and cool to warm.

Klerksdorp: 12°C — 27°C

Potchefstroom: 11°C — 26°C

Mahikeng: 12°C — 29°C

Rustenburg: 13°C — 28°C

Vryburg: 13°C — 28°C

Free State: Fine and cool to warm.

Bloemfontein: 13°C — 25°C

Welkom: 12°C — 27°C

Bethlehem: 9°C — 22°C

Northern Cape: Partly cloudy in the south at first, otherwise fine and cool to warm.

The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong south-easterly.

Upington: 13°C — 28°C

Kimberley: 12°C — 29°C

De Aar: 8°C — 24°C

Alexander Bay: 9°C — 23°CS

Springbok: 6°C — 22°C

Calvinia: 4°C — 23°C

Sutherland: 1°C — 19°C

Western Cape: Fine in the west, otherwise partly cloudy and cool but warm in the north-west.

The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly to south-easterly, but strong along the west coast. It will be moderate to fresh easterly along the south coast from the afternoon.

Cape Town: 10°C — 20°C

Vredendal: 7°C — 25°C

Riversdale: 7°C — 22°C

George: 9°C — 17°C

Worcester: 6°C — 21°C

Beaufort West: 8°C — 19°C

Oudtshoorn: 6°C — 21°C

Eastern Cape: Cloudy in places at first, otherwise partly cloudy and cool. The western half will be fine in places in the north, while the eastern half will be cloudy, with morning fog patches in the north and isolated showers and rain in the morning.

The wind along the coast will be moderate westerly in the west and moderate south-westerly in the east, becoming easterly in the afternoon.

Gqeberha: 13°C — 18°C

Makhanda: 10°C — 16°C

Nxuba: 7°C — 21°C

Robert Sobukwe Town: 6°C — 21°C

Ku Gompo City: 14°C — 18°C

Port St Johns: 15°C — 18°C

Mthatha: 9°C — 16°C

Komani: 7°C — 16°C

Qonce: 10°C — 17°C

KwaZulu-Natal: Cloudy and cool with isolated showers and thundershowers, but scattered in the east.

The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong southerly to south-westerly, becoming moderate from the south in the afternoon.

Durban: 19°C — 22°C

Richard’s Bay: 19°C — 22°C

Pietermaritzburg: 12°C — 18°C

Ladysmith: 14°C — 18°C

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