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Wednesday's weather: Thundershowers for Limpopo, Mpumalanga - cool to warm elsewhere

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Thunderstorms are forecast for Limpopo and Mpumalanga on Wednesday.
Thunderstorms are forecast for Limpopo and Mpumalanga on Wednesday.
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Thunderstorms are forecast for Limpopo and Mpumalanga on Wednesday, otherwise a cool to warm day is expected throughout the country, according to the South African Weather Service.

Impact-based warning 

Yellow warning (L2) for severe thunderstorms over Limpopo as well as the Highveld of Mpumalanga, with possible impacts of localised flooding of low-lying areas and bridges, including susceptible roads.

The weather in your province

Gauteng will be fine and warm, becoming partly cloudy with isolated afternoon thundershowers in the north.

The expected UVB sunburn index is high.

It will be partly cloudy in the west of Mpumalanga, otherwise cloudy and cool to warm with scattered showers and thundershowers but isolated in the south-west.

It will be cold in places along the escarpment.

Limpopo will be partly cloudy in the south-western parts where it will be hot with isolated showers and thundershowers, otherwise cloudy and cool to warm with scattered showers and thundershowers, but widespread in the north.

In the North West, it will be partly cloudy in the extreme east with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers, otherwise fine and hot.

The Free State will be partly cloudy in the extreme east with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers, otherwise fine and warm to hot.

The Northern Cape will be cloudy at first in the west, otherwise fine and cool to warm.

The wind along the coast will be light to moderate north-westerly becoming fresh to strong southerly to south-easterly by the afternoon.

In the Western Cape, it will be cloudy to partly cloudy at first, otherwise fine and cool to warm.

The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh westerly to south-westerly.

The expected UVB sunburn index is high.

The western half of the Eastern Cape will be cloudy along the coast and adjacent interior, otherwise fine and cool.

The wind along the coast will be moderate south-westerly.

In the eastern half of the Eastern Cape, it will be fine and warm in the extreme north-west, otherwise cloudy and cool with isolated showers, but scattered in the south-east.

The wind along the coast will be moderate south-westerly becoming light easterly in the afternoon.

KwaZulu-Natal will be cloudy and cool but cold in the south-west with scattered showers and thundershowers but isolated in the west.

The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly to south-westerly becoming south-easterly in the afternoon.

The expected UVB sunburn index is high.

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The forecast for Wednesday.

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