Weather forecast, alerts and UVB index for all South African provinces, 6 April 2020

Weather data provided by the South African Weather Service. For a detailed forecast of your province, click here.

Warnings:

Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the northern parts of Eastern Cape.

Watches:

Gale force SW winds of 65km/h are expected along the coast between Oyster Bay and East London. High seas with wave heights in excess of 6m are possible between Cape St Francis and Port Alfred from tomorrow night.

Special weather advisories

Strong winds are expected in places in the north of Eastern Cape late morning until evening.

Gauteng: Partly cloudy and warm.

UVB sunburn index: High.

Mpumalanga: Fine and warm, but hot in the Lowveld.

Limpopo: Fine and warm but hot over the Limpopo Valley.

North-West Province: Fine and warm.

Free State: Fine and warm.

Northern Cape: Cloudy with morning fog along the coast otherwise partly cloudy and cold to cool with isolated showers rain over the southern parts. It will be fine and warm in places in the central and northern parts. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate north westerly becoming south-westerly to southerly in the afternoon, turning to southeasterly later in the evening.

Western Cape: Morning fog along the west coast, otherwise cloudy and cool with scattered showers and rain but isolated over the interior where it will be partly cloudy in places. The wind along the coast will be moderate north-westerly but fresh to strong southwesterly to westerly south of Cape Point spreading north-westerly.

UVB sunburn index: High.

Western half of the Eastern Cape:

Partly cloudy and warm in the north, otherwise cloudy and cool with isolated showers and rain, but scattered along the coast west of St Francis. Strong westerly winds are expected in places over the interior from midday. The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong south westerly, reaching near gale to gale force from late afternoon.

Eastern half of the Eastern Cape: Fine, windy and warm in the west, otherwise cloudy and cool with light rain in the south from late afternoon. The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong south westerly, reaching near gale force in the south from late afternoon.

Kwazulu-Natal: Fine and warm but hot in the north-east, becoming partly cloudy to cloudy from the south in the afternoon. Isolated evening showers and thundershowers are expected over the southern half. The wind along the coast will be moderate north-easterly in the north, otherwise southerly to south-westerly.

UVB sunburn index: Moderate.

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