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Friday’s weather comes with damaging winds and excessive lightning in parts of the country, while other parts can expect extremely hot conditions and high fire conditions, according to the South African Weather Service.
Impact-based warnings
A yellow level 2 warning for severe thunderstorms with possible heavy downpours, large amounts of small hail, damaging winds and excessive lightning, leading to localised flooding of susceptible roads, low-lying areas and bridges, localised structural damages as well as disruption of services due to power surges, and danger to life, are expected over the eastern parts of the North West and south-western Bushveld of Limpopo.
Fire danger warnings
Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected in places over the Namakwa interior region of the Northern Cape and northern interior of the Western Cape.
Advisories
Extremely hot conditions are expected over Sarah Baartman District Municipality and Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality of the Eastern Cape.
The weather in your province
There will be morning fog in the south-east of Gauteng, otherwise partly cloudy and warm with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers.
The expected UVB sunburn index is high.
Mpumalanga will experience cloudy and cool to warm conditions with drizzle and fog patches along the escarpment. Isolated showers and thundershowers are expected in the afternoon, except for the Bushbuckridge area.
In Limpopo, it will be cloudy and warm to hot with morning fog and drizzle along the escarpment.
Isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers are expected in the south-western Bushveld.
The North West and Free State will have morning fog in the east, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated showers and thundershowers, but scattered in the east of the North West.
There will be morning fog along the coast of the Northern Cape, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated showers and thundershowers.
In the Western Cape, there will be morning fog along the coast, otherwise fine and very hot to extremely hot in places over the eastern interior. It will become partly cloudy from the afternoon with isolated evening showers and thundershowers over the extreme north-east.
The wind along the coast will be light and variable along the south coast becoming fresh to strong westerly to south-westerly from late morning, otherwise fresh to strong southerly to south-easterly.
The expected UVB sunburn index is very high.
Extremely hot conditions are expected in the western half of the Eastern Cape in places over the central interior, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated showers and thunder-showers, except in the extreme south-east.
The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh easterly.
In the eastern half, there will be morning fog in places along the coast and adjacent interior, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated showers and thundershowers, except along the coast. It will be extremely hot in places over the central interior.
The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong north-easterly.
KwaZulu-Natal will experience morning fog over the interior, otherwise cloudy and warm and with isolated showers and thundershowers. Light rain is expected in the north-east.
The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh easterly to north-easterly becoming strong in the extreme south by afternoon.
The expected UVB sunburn index is very high.
