19 May

Your weather: Flood warning for Eastern Cape on Friday

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The South African Weather Service has issued an orange level 5 warning for disruptive rain leading to widespread flooding expected over the central coast and interior of the Eastern Cape. The province can also expect very cold and wet conditions with light snowfalls on the high mountain peaks. 

Snowfall is also expected in the Central Karoo in the Western Cape and the southern parts of the Karoo Hoogland in the Northern Cape.

The weather in your province:

Gauteng will be partly cloudy and cool with isolated showers and thundershowers.

The expected UVB sunburn index is high. 

Mpumalanga will be warm in the Lowveld, otherwise partly cloudy and cool with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers over the Highveld region.

Limpopo will be partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers in the southwest, where it will become cloudy in the evening.

The North West will be partly cloudy and cool, becoming cloudy, with scattered showers and thundershowers, but isolated in the east.

The Free State will be partly cloudy and cold to cool, becoming cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers, but widespread in the south-west. Light snowfall is expected along the Lesotho border.

The Northern Cape will be cloudy and cold with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers, but widespread in the southeast. 

The Western Cape will be cloudy to partly cloudy and cold to cool with isolated showers in the extreme eastern parts and over the Overberg District until in the afternoon. It will be fine in the northwest from the mid-morning.

The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southeasterly in the west in the morning otherwise westerly to south-westerly.

The expected UVB sunburn index is low.

The western half of the Eastern Cape will be cloudy and cold with widespread showers and thundershower but scattered in places in the west.

The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong westerly.

The eastern half of the Eastern Cape will be cloudy and cool to cold with widespread showers and thundershowers.

The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly, but westerly in places in the west.

KwaZulu-Natal will be partly cloudy and warm but cool in the south, becoming cloudy in the afternoon with scattered showers and thundershowers but isolated in the north.

The wind along the coast will be Moderate to fresh northerly to north-westerly north of Richards Bay, otherwise southerly to south-westerly spreading to Kosi Bay in the evening.

 The expected UVB sunburn index is moderate. 

Friday's temperatures.
Friday's temperatures.


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