News24 | Wednesday’s weather: Severe thunderstorms and damaging winds in three provinces

Strong winds are expected in parts of the Northern Cape and Western Cape.

Hello Africa/Getty Images

The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has issued warnings for severe thunderstorms in KwaZulu-Natal and damaging winds in parts of the Northern Cape and Western Cape.

Impact-based warnings

Yellow Level 2 warning: Severe thunderstorms accompanied by heavy downpours, damaging winds, hail and lightning, resulting in localised flooding and damage to infrastructure and settlements, are expected over most parts of KwaZulu-Natal, except in the north.

Yellow Level 1 warning: Damaging interior winds, leading to localised problems for high-sided vehicles on prone routes and localised damage to temporary structures, are expected over the Karoo Hoogland local municipality in the Northern Cape and the Central Karoo district municipality in the Western Cape.

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-based impacts occurring. Levels 2 and 6 are high, level 5 is medium, and levels 4 and 8 are low.

Advisories

A heat wave with persistently high temperatures is expected in the north-western parts of KwaZulu-Natal until Thursday.

The weather in your province

Gauteng: Partly cloudy conditions are expected over most of the province, with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers expected in Vereeniging.

Pretoria: 16°C–30°C

Johannesburg: 12°C–28°C

Vereeniging: 12°C–29°C

Mpumalanga: Morning fog and drizzle are expected in Mbombela, otherwise partly cloudy conditions across the province.

Mbombela: 14°C–29°C

Ermelo: 12°C–28°C

Emalahleni: 14°C–28°C

Standerton: 13°C–29°C

Skukuza: 13°C–33°C

Limpopo: Partly cloudy conditions expected across the province.

Polokwane: 14°C–29°C

Phalaborwa: 16°C–34°C

Tzaneen: 14°C–29°C

Musina: 17°35°C

Lephalale: 16°C–35°C

Mokopane: 16°C–32°C

North West: Partly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers expected in Mahikeng, and scattered showers and thundershowers in Vryburg.

Klerksdorp: 16°C–30°C

Potchefstroom: 16°C–30°C

Mahikeng: 17°C–31°C

Rustenburg: 18°C–32°C

Vryburg: 17°C–31°C

Free State: Partly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers expected across the province.

Bloemfontein: 13°C–30°C

Welkom: 16°C–30°C

Bethlehem: 13°C–28°C

Northern Cape: Partly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers expected in Kimberley. Otherwise partly cloudy conditions in most areas.

Upington: 19°C–34°C

Kimberley: 15°C–31°C

De Aar: 14°C–30°C

Alexander Bay: 12°C–23°C

Springbok: 13°C–27°C

Calvinia: 6°C–28°C

Sutherland: 6°C–25°C

Western Cape: Fine with high-level clouds in Cape Town, becoming partly cloudy from the evening. Light and variable wind, becoming moderate to fresh northerly to north-westerly from mid-morning.

Partly cloudy in George until the evening, when it will become fine. Light and variable wind but moderate southerly in the afternoon.

Cape Town: 11°C–20°C

Vredendal: 10°C–25°C

Riversdale: 11°C–26°C

George: 12°C–26°C

Worcester: 11°C–27°C

Beaufort West: 16°C–32°C

Oudtshoorn: 13°C–34°C

Western half of the Eastern Cape: Cloudy with fog in the south in the morning and again from the evening, otherwise fine and warm to hot, becoming partly cloudy and windy in the afternoon. Isolated thunderstorms are expected in the extreme eastern interior.

The wind along the coast will be light to moderate north-easterly, becoming moderate to fresh south-westerly from mid-morning.

Eastern half of the Eastern Cape: Morning fog in places along the coast and adjacent interior, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated showers and thundershowers.

The wind along the coast will be light to moderate north-easterly, becoming south-westerly from the evening.

Gqeberha: 15°C–26°C

Makhanda: 13°C–33°C

Nxuba (Cradock): 11°C–32°C

Robert Sobukwe Town (Graaff-Reinet): 13°C–33°C

KuGompo City (East London): 16°C–28°C

Port St Johns: 19°C–28°C

Mthatha: 14°C–34°C

Komani: 12°C–28°C

Qonce: 15°C–33°C

KwaZulu-Natal: Partly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers in Durban and Richards Bay. Scattered showers and thundershowers expected in Pietermaritzburg.

Light and variable wind in Durban, becoming light to moderate north-easterly from late morning. Light to moderate south-westerly wind in Richards Bay, becoming north-easterly from the afternoon.

Durban: 21°C–27°C

Richards Bay: 21°C–33°C

Pietermaritzburg: 17°C–30°C

Ladysmith: 17°C–34°C

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