Weather forecast, alerts and UVB index for all South African provinces, 19 August 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 RAIN leading to localized flooding of formal and informal settlements, roads and bridges especially low lying areas and disruption to traffic expected along the coastal areas of the Garden Route District in the Western Cape, spreading along the coast and adjacent interior in the Eastern Cape between Plettenberg Bay and Cannon Rocks on Thursday into Friday.
2. Yellow level 1 warning for disruptive RAIN leading to localized flooding expected in places in the Nelson Mandela Metro, Sundays River Valley, Ndhlambe, the coast of the Great Kei local municipalities and Buffalo City Metro in the Eastern Cape on Thursday into Friday.

FIRE DANGER WARNINGS:

1. Nil.

ADVISORIES:

1. Nil.

Gauteng:

Temperature: Fine and cool.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Extreme.

Mpumalanga:

Temperature: Fine and cool to warm, but hot in the Lowveld. It will become partly cloudy in the south-east in the afternoon.

Limpopo:

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

North-West Province:

Temperature: Fine and cool to warm.

Free State:

Temperature: Partly cloudy in the south, otherwise fine and cold but cool in the east.

Northern Cape:

East temperature: Cloudy to partly cloudy with isolated light showers over the southern high ground by the evening where it will be very cold, otherwise fine and cold to cool.

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

Western Cape:

Temperature: Partly cloudy and cool with isolated showers in the west and south-west at first, otherwise cloudy with rain but widespread along the south-coast and adjacent interior

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

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Low.

Eastern Cape:

The Western half – Temperature: Cloudy and cold to very cold, with scattered rain and showers south of the escarpment, but widespread along the
coast and adjacent interior. Light snowfalls can be expected over the Sneeuberg and Winterberg mountains.

The Western half – Wind: The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh north westerly east of Algoa Bay early morning, otherwise fresh to strong southerly, moderating from the west.

The Eastern half – Temperature: Fine to partly cloudy and cool, becoming cloudy and cold from the west, with isolated rain and showers, but
scattered in the south-west.

The Eastern half – Wind: The wind along the coast will be light to moderate westerly, becoming fresh to strong from the south mid morning,
but fresh to strong south westerly in the afternoon.

Kwazulu-Natal:

Temperature: Morning fog over the interior, otherwise partly cloudy but warm in the north. It will become cloudy in the afternoon with isolated showers, except in the north east.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be moderate southerly to south-westerly, strengthening to fresh to strong in the
south by evening

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Low.

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