Weather forecast, alerts and UVB index for all South African provinces, 6 February 2021

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

Severe Weather Alerts

IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS:

1. Yellow (Level 2) warning for disruptive rainfall leading to localized flooding of susceptible roads and already vulnerable low lying areas and bridges as well as poor driving conditions is expected over parts of Gauteng, the eastern parts of the North West, as well as the western and southern parts of Limpopo.

FIRE DANGER WARNINGS:

1. Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the central and southern parts of the Northern Cape Province, the eastern parts of the Central Karoo District in the Western Cape, as well as the Dr Beyers Naude, the Blue Crane Route, inxuba Yethemba and Sundays River Valley local municipalities in the Eastern Cape.

ADVISORIES:

1. Nil

Gauteng:

Temperature: Cloudy and cool with widespread showers and thundershowers but scattered in the south.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Moderate.

Mpumalanga:

Temperature: Morning fog on the escarpment, otherwise cloudy and cool to warm with scattered showers and thundershowers.

Limpopo:

Temperature: Cloudy and cool to warm with scattered showers and thundershowers but widespread in the west and south-west.

North-West Province:

Temperature: Hot in the extreme west, otherwise partly cloudy and warm with isolated showers and thundershowers, but scattered in the east where it will be cloudy and cool.

Free State:

Temperature: Fine and hot in the west, otherwise partly cloudy and warm with isolated afternoon thundershowers but scattered in the north-east and east
where it will be cool in places.

Northern Cape:

Temperature: Cloudy with fog along the coast in the morning where it will be cool, otherwise fine and warm to hot but very hot in places in the west, becoming partly cloudy in the north-east with isolated afternoon thundershowers.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly to south-easterly.

Western Cape:

Temperature: Cloudy and cool along the coast with morning and evening fog patches, otherwise fine and warm to hot but very hot over the interior.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be light and variable along the south coast in the early morning, otherwise moderate to fresh southerly to south-westerly.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Extreme.

Eastern Cape:

The Western half – Temperature: Cloudy and warm WITH LIGHT RAIN IN PLACES ALONG THE COAST, otherwise partly cloudy and hot becoming cloudy with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers in the north.

The Western Half – Wind: The wind along the coast will be moderate north-easterly, becoming moderate to fresh south-westerly from the afternoon.

The Eastern half – Temperature: Cloudy WITH LIGHT RAIN in places along the coast and adjacent interior in the morning, otherwise partly cloudy and warm with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers.

The Eastern half – Wind: The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh to north-easterly.

Kwazulu-Natal:

Temperature: Partly cloudy and warm with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers, but scattered in the west.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be moderate south-easterly north of Charters Creek, otherwise moderate to fresh easterly to north-easterly.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Extreme.

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