South African Weather Service released the regional weather forecast for Friday, Dec 27, 2024. SAWS issued severe weather alerts and warning for local residents and urged to take precautions.
Reportedly, the SA Weather Service announced Yellow Level 2 warning related to severe thunderstorms leading to localised flooding of susceptible roads, low-lying areas and bridges.
Also, a large amount of small hail over an open area are expected over the western parts of the North-West, north-eastern and south-eastern parts of the Northern Cape in places over the Eastern Cape as well as the south-western parts of KwaZulu-Natal. Warnings related to fire danger have also been released.
In Gauteng region the weather will remain partly cloudy and warm with isolated showers and thundershowers. The UVB sunburn index will remain very high. Whereas, Mpumalanga and its nearby regions will remain cloudy in the morning. But later will see, warm to hot with isolated showers and thundershowers, except in the Lowveld.
Cloudy morning weather will be seen in Limpopo. Otherwise, a partly cloudy and warm to hot but very hot in some places in the Lowveld will be observed. However, isolated showers and thundershowers are expected in the Western Bushveld.
In North West region, the weather will remain partly cloudy and warm with isolated showers and thunder but will scatter extremely in west. Free State will also observe the same weather conditions.
Considering the climate of Northern Cape, the weather will remain cloudy with light rain along the west coast and adjacent interior in the morning. It will see partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated scattered showers and thunderstorms in the central and eastern parts of the region.
Though the wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh northerly to north-westerly and will become westerly from the afternoon.
Furthermore, in the Western Cape region, Western half of the Eastern Cape, Eastern half of the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu Natal the mornings will remain foggy and will later change into warm weather and there are high chances of receiving showers in the regions.