Weather forecast, alerts and UVB index for all South African provinces, 7 December 2018

Weather data provided by the South African Weather Service. For a detailed forecast of your province, click here.

Warnings:

Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the eastern parts of the Northern Cape, the North West and in places in the Free State.

Heavy rain leading to localised flooding is expected over the Cape Metropole and Overberg Districts of the Western Cape overnight into Friday morning.

Watches:

Severe thunderstorms are expected over the eastern parts of the Eastern Cape, the south-eastern parts of the Free State and the southern parts of KwaZulu Natal.

Heavy rain is expected over Gauteng, Limpopo and Mpumalanga on Saturday into Sunday leading to flash flooding on Sunday.

Special weather advisories

Hot and humid weather will result in extremely uncomfortable conditions over north-eastern KZN and the Lowveld of Mpumalanga.

Extremely hot conditions are expected in places over the Lowveld of Mpumalanga.

Weather forecast and UV index for all provinces Gauteng: Partly cloudy and warm with scattered showers and thundershowers.

UVB sunburn index: Extreme.

Mpumalanga: Fine and warm to hot, but very hot to extremely hot in the Lowveld, becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon with isolated showers and thundershowers, except in the Lowveld, but scattered on the Highveld.

Limpopo: Fine and hot to very hot, becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon with isolated showers and thundershowers, except in the Lowveld, but scattered over the Western Bushveld and southern central parts.

North-West Province: Partly cloudy, windy and warm to hot with scattered thundershowers but isolated in the west.

Free State: Partly cloudy, windy and warm with scattered thundershowers but isolated in the west.

Northern Cape: Cloudy to partly cloudy and cool with isolated showers and thundershowers except the central interior. The wind along the coast will be moderate north-westerly becoming south-westerly in the afternoon.

Western Cape: Cloudy to partly cloudy and cool with scattered showers and thundershowers. Widespread showers and thundershowers can be expected over the southwestern parts in the morning, where heavy falls leading to flash flooding are highly likely. The wind along the coast will be fresh south-westerly but north-westerly along the west coast in the morning.

UVB index: High.

Western half of the Eastern Cape: Cloudy and warm but cool along the coast with isolated showers and thundershowers but scattered in the west. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate south-westerly.

Eastern half of the Eastern Cape: Partly cloudy and warm becoming cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers but widespread in the east. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate south-westerly becoming southerly along the wild coast by late afternoon.

KwaZulu-Natal: Morning fog over the north-eastern interior, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot, but very hot in places in the north.It will become cloudy in the afternoon with scattered showers and thundershowers but widespread in the south. The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong north-easterly becoming fresh southerly to south-westerly from the south in the morning and spreading to Richards Bay by evening.

UVB index: High.

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