It will be yet another scorcher of a day on Thursday, the South African Weather Service says.
Impact-based warnings:
- Yellow level 1 warning for damaging waves, with possible impacts such as disruption to beach activities and possible risk to rock anglers, as well as impacts on small vessels and personal watercrafts (kayaks) are expected between Hondeklip Bay and Plettenberg Bay in the morning.
Fire warnings:
- Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the Cape Winelands District of the Western Cape as well as the southern parts of the Northern Cape.
Advisories:
- Extremely hot conditions are expected over the Prince Albert and Oudtshoorn municipalities.
- Extremely uncomfortable conditions are expected for the northern parts of Namakwa (Northern Cape), West Coast District, as well as the Little Karoo District and Central Karoo of the Western Cape.
The weather in your region:
Gauteng will be partly cloudy and warm.
The expected UVB sunburn index is high.
Mpumalanga will be partly cloudy and cool to warm, with isolated showers and thundershowers over the lowveld and escarpment areas.
Limpopo will be partly cloudy and warm to hot, with isolated showers and thundershowers in the south western bushveld.
North West will be partly cloudy and warm, with isolated showers and thundershowers.
Free State will be partly cloudy and warm to hot, with isolated showers and thundershowers in the west and northern parts.
The eastern part of the Eastern Cape will be cloudy, with morning fog along the northern coast as well as adjacent interior, where it will be cool, otherwise partly cloudy and hot to very hot.
There will be isolated showers and thundershowers over the interior, but scattered in the north east.
The wind along the coast will be light and variable, becoming moderate to fresh in the afternoon, but strong south of Hondeklip Bay.
The western half of the Eastern Cape will see morning fog in places, otherwise fine and hot, becoming partly cloudy, with isolated thunderstorms over the interior in the afternoon.
The wind along the coast will be light south-easterly, becoming moderate from afternoon.
The Western Cape will be fine in the west, otherwise partly cloudy and hot to very hot, but warm along the coast, with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers in the north-east and light rain along the south coast in the evening.
The wind along the coast will be light and variable north of Cape Columbine at first, otherwise fresh to strong southerly to south-easterly.
The expected UVB sunburn index is extreme.
KwaZulu-Natal will see some morning fog over the interior, otherwise partly cloudy and warm.
Isolated showers and rain are expected along the north coast and adjacent interior in the late evening.
The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly to south-easterly north of Durban, otherwise moderate easterly to north-easterly, spreading to Mandeni by evening.
The expected UVB sunburn index is high.
