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The South African Weather Service has issued multiple warnings for severe thunderstorms and damaging winds in parts of North West, Free State and Western Cape. (Cecile Nijland/Netwerk24)

The South African Weather Service has issued multiple warnings for severe thunderstorms and damaging winds in parts of the North West, Free State and Western Cape.

Extremely hot and uncomfortable conditions are expected over the Western Cape, Northern Cape, and Eastern Cape.

Impact-based warnings

Yellow Level 2 warning: Severe thunderstorms leading to localised flooding of susceptible roads, low-lying areas and bridges as well as large amounts of small hail over an open area are expected over the western parts of the North West, north-eastern parts of the Northern Cape and over the north-western parts of the Free State.

Yellow Level 1 warning: Damaging winds leading to difficulty in navigation at sea are expected between Cape Columbine and Hermanus in Western Cape.

Fire danger warnings

Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the western and southern parts of the Northern Cape, north-western parts of the Eastern Cape and western and northern parts of the Western Cape.

Advisories

Extremely hot and uncomfortable conditions are expected over the West Coast, Cape Winelands, Central and Little Karoo districts of the Western Cape, the Kamiesberg Municipality in the Northern Cape, as well as the western parts of the Eastern Cape.

The weather in your province

Gauteng: Cloudy and cool, warmer in the north with isolated showers and thundershowers.

Pretoria: 16°C — 27°C

Johannesburg: 14°C — 26°C

Vereeniging: 15°C — 26°C

Mpumalanga: Cloudy, cool, and warm on the Lowveld. Expect isolated showers, thundershowers, and drizzle along the escarpment.

Mbombela: 19°C — 62°C

Ermelo: 13°C — 24°C

Emalahleni: 16°C — 23°C

Standerton: 15°C — 26°C

Skukuza: 21°C — 28°C

Limpopo: Cool to warm conditions with isolated showers, thundershowers, and drizzle along the escarpment.

Polokwane: 16°C — 22°C

Phalaborwa: 21°C — 28°C

Tzaneen: 20°C — 24°C

Musina: 21°C — 29°C

Lephalale: 20°C — 25°C

Mokopane: 17°C — 24°C

North West: Morning fog in the east, partly cloudy, windy, and cool to warm with scattered showers and thundershowers.

Klerksdorp: 17°C — 28°C

Potchefstroom: 17°C — 28°C

Mahikeng: 18°C — 25°C

Rustenburg: 17°C — 24°C

Vryburg: 18°C — 30°C

Free State: Morning fog in the east, partly cloudy, windy, warm to hot with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers.

Bloemfontein: 17°C — 32°C

Welkom: 18°C — 30°C

Bethlehem: 14°C — 27°C

Northern Cape: Fine in the west, partly cloudy, windy, hot to very hot, with scattered showers in the eastern parts. Coastal winds will be strong from the south to south-east.

Upington: 20°C — 40°C

Kimberley: 19°C — 35°C

De Aar: 16°C — 36°C

Alexander Bay: 15°C — 26°C

Springbok: 22°C — 38°C

Calvinia: 18°C — 38°C

Sutherland: 10°C — 34°C

Western Cape: Fine and hot to very hot. Coastal winds will be strong easterly to south-easterly, with gale-force in the south-west.

Cape Town: 19°C — 33°C

Vredendal: 19°C — 42°C

Riversdale: 15°C — 34°C

George: 15°C — 27°C

Worcester: 17°C — 38°C

Beaufort West: 17°C — 39°C

Oudtshoorn: 16°C — 39°C

Western half of the Eastern Cape: Morning fog over the interior, fine and very hot, extremely hot in areas, hot along the coast. Partly cloudy with isolated thunderstorms in the north-east in the afternoon. Coastal winds light to strong north-easterly to south-easterly.

Eastern half of the Eastern Cape: Cloudy with fog and drizzle in the south of the escarpment during the morning and evening, partly cloudy and warm with isolated afternoon thunderstorms, hot in the west. Coastal winds light to strong north-easterly.

Gqeberha: 16°C — 27°C

Makhanda: 12°C — 30°C

Cradock: 11°C — 41°C

Graaff-Reinet: 12°C — 38°C

East London: 17°C — 27°C

Port St Johns: 18°C — 27°C

Umtata: 15°C — 29°C

Komani: 13°C — 33°C

Qonce: 12°C — 30°C

KwaZulu-Natal: Morning fog over the interior, cloudy and warm with morning showers and rain, clearing partly in the afternoon with isolated thundershowers scattered in the extreme west. Coastal winds moderate to fresh from the south-east to north-east.

Durban: 21°C — 26°C

Richards Bay: 22°C — 27°C

Pietermaritzburg: 17°C — 27°C

Ladysmith: 17°C — 30°C

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

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