News24 | Monday’s weather: Damaging winds, storms to hit KZN, heat wave in Mpumalanga, Limpopo

Severe thunderstorms and damaging winds are expected across parts of KwaZulu-Natal.

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The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has issued several weather warnings for Monday, with severe thunderstorms and damaging winds expected across parts of KwaZulu-Natal, while fire danger conditions remain extremely high in several provinces.

Impact-based warnings

Yellow Level 2 warning: Severe thunderstorms are expected over most parts of KwaZulu-Natal, except along the south coast and adjacent interior, resulting in localised damage to infrastructure and settlements and flooding of susceptible roads and bridges.

Yellow Level 2 warning: Damaging interior winds are expected over the eastern parts of the Free State and the western and eastern parts of KwaZulu-Natal, resulting in localised damage to settlements, difficulty with navigation, and localised problems for high-sided vehicles on prone routes until Tuesday morning.

Yellow Level 2 warning: Damaging winds and waves are expected along the KwaZulu-Natal coastline, resulting in localised disruption of beachfront activities, small harbours and/or ports for a short period of time until Tuesday morning.

In 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.

Fire danger warnings

Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over northern KwaZulu-Natal, the eastern parts of both Free State and North West, northern parts of Gauteng, and the central and south-western parts of Limpopo.

Advisories

A heat wave with persistently high temperatures is expected in parts of the Mpumalanga Highveld, the southern parts of the Mpumalanga Lowveld, and the south-western Bushveld of Limpopo.

The weather in your province

Gauteng: Partly cloudy and warm with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers in the extreme south. It will be hot in some northern areas.

Pretoria: 17°C — 31°C

Johannesburg: 12°C — 29°C

Vereeniging: 15°C — 28°C

Mpumalanga: Fine and warm to hot, becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon with isolated showers and thundershowers in the south as well as in the Lowveld, where it will be very hot. It will be windy over the Highveld.

Mbombela: 17°C — 34°C

Ermelo: 14°C — 32°C

Emalahleni: 19°C — 32°C

Standerton: 13°C — 31°C

Skukuza: 14°C — 39°C

Limpopo: Fine and hot to very hot, but extremely hot in places in the Lowveld and Limpopo Valley. It will become partly cloudy in the south-west.

Polokwane: 15°C — 33°C

Phalaborwa: 19°C — 39°C

Tzaneen: 15°C — 37°C

Musina: 22°C — 42°C

Lephalale: 18°C — 40°C

Mokopane: 19°C — 36°C

North West: Partly cloudy, windy and warm to hot with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers in the west.

Klerksdorp: 17°C — 27°C

Potchefstroom: 17°C — 27°C

Mahikeng: 19°C — 29°C

Rustenburg: 18°C — 33°C

Vryburg: 17°C — 26°C

Free State: Partly cloudy, windy and cool to warm with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers.

Bloemfontein: 14°C — 21°C

Welkom: 17°C — 24°C

Bethlehem: 14°C — 23°C

Northern Cape: Partly cloudy, windy and cool to warm with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers in the east.

The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly.

Upington: 9°C — 22°C

Kimberley: 15°C — 22°C

De Aar: 13°C — 18°C

Alexander Bay: 11°C — 22°C

Springbok: 5°C — 19°C

Calvinia: 3°C — 19°C

Sutherland: 2°C — 15°C

Western Cape: Cloudy and cold to cool with isolated showers and rain in the morning over the central and eastern interior but scattered along the eastern parts of the south coast.

The wind along the coast will be light to moderate south-westerly in the west and south-west but moderate to fresh westerly to south-westerly along the south coast.

Cape Town: 11°C — 20°C

Vredendal: 8°C — 23°C

Riversdale: 9°C — 19°C

George: 10°C — 17°C

Worcester: 7°C — 23°C

Beaufort West: 9°C — 17°C

Oudtshoorn: 9°C — 18°C

Eastern Cape: Cloudy and cool with widespread rain and showers.

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

Gqeberha: 14°C — 17°C

Makhanda: 12°C — 16°C

Nxuba: 10°C — 13°C

Robert Sobukwe Town: 9°C — 13°C

Ku Gompo City: 16°C — 18°C

Port St Johns: 16°C — 19°C

Mthatha: 12°C — 16°C

Komani: 10°C — 15°C

Qonce: 12°C — 16°C

KwaZulu-Natal: Morning fog patches over the interior, otherwise cloudy and warm to hot but very hot in places over the northern parts with scattered showers and thundershowers.

The wind along the coast will be moderate north-easterly, becoming moderate to fresh in the south from the morning, spreading to the north during the day, reaching strong in places.

Durban: 21°C — 26°C

Richard’s Bay: 20°C — 33°C

Pietermaritzburg: 17°C — 28°C

Ladysmith: 17°C — 33°C

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