Weather forecast, alerts and UVB index for all South African provinces, 20 October 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 1 warning for excessive lightning from severe thunderstorms resulting localised service disruption due to power surges and localised damage to properties over the Kai !Garib local municipality.

FIRE DANGER WARNINGS:

1. Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected in the central and western parts parts of the Northern Cape Province as well as the northern parts of the West Coast and central Karoo District.

ADVISORIES:

1. Extremely hot conditions are expected over the northern parts of the West Coast District (Western Cape).

Gauteng:

Temperature: Cloudy and cool, but warm in the north, becoming fine in the afternoon.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: High.

Mpumalanga:

Temperature: Cloudy with morning fog along the escarpment, otherwise partly cloudy and cool but warm in the Lowveld.

Limpopo:

Temperature: Cloudy with morning fog patches along the escarpment, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm.

North-West Province:

Temperature: Cloudy in the extreme east at first, otherwise fine and warm.

Free State:

Temperature: Partly cloudy in the east, spreading to the western parts by the afternoon, otherwise fine and cool to warm.

Northern Cape:

Temperature: Fine and warm to hot, becoming partly cloudy by the afternoon, with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers in the east.

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

Western Cape:

Temperature: Cloudy in places along the south coast at first and in the evening, otherwise fine and warm to hot but very hot to extreme hot in the West coast. It will be partly cloudy in the north east with isolated showers and thundershowers.

Wind: The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh easterly to south-easterly but strong to near gale in the southwest. It will becoming moderate to fresh northerly to north-westerly north of Cape Columbine by the evening.

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Extreme.

Eastern Cape:

The Western half – Temperature: Fine and warm, becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon over the interior.

The Western half – Wind: The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong north easterly

The Eastern half – Temperature: Fine and warm, becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon over the interior.

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

Kwazulu-Natal:

Temperature: Morning fog over the interior, otherwise partly cloudy and cool, but warm in places in the north.

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

The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Extreme.

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