Africa: The Africa Weather Forecast has predicted extreme weather conditions for South Africa from the coming week from January 22nd to January 28th.
It is forecasted that there will be a benign thunderstorm over the central interior most of the week due to an upper air high-pressure cell migrating south from southern Namibia and Botswana towards the central interior midweek while the surface trough becomes relentless in the west.
MONDAY AND TUESDAY: Light rainfall over Western Cape’s south coast is expected to shift north into the adjacent interior today into Tuesday morning as the system moves east. Otherwise, fine at first but becoming partly cloudy and warm with scattered showers and thundershowers along the eastern escarpment but isolated with light rainfall over the central interior on both Monday and Tuesday afternoon.
WEDNESDAY: The difference on Wednesday is that thunderstorms are only expected over the central interior, accompanied by light rainfall. Otherwise, it will be fine and hot in the west, warm in the east, and hot in the far northeast.
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY: The upper air high-pressure cell is expected to maintain dominance, further clamping down on widespread thunderstorm development but allowing very isolated storm clusters to fester within the central interior, resulting in a high chance of isolated thunderstorms with very light rainfall over the central interior on Thursday, followed by a clear eastward shift and slight intensification of rainfall into Mpumalanga and southern Limpopo on Friday.
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY: High chance of afternoon thunderstorms in most of the country on Saturday but in the east on Sunday. The west, especially the Cape interior, will be coming off a dry period and an extended period of intense heat, resulting in a few threats not limited to but including heat-related injuries and wildfires over most of the region for most of the week.