The South African Weather Service has issued a warning for extremely high fire danger conditions in the Northern Cape, southern parts of Limpopo and northern and central parts of Gauteng.
Impact-based warnings:
A yellow Level 2 warning for damaging winds and waves may lead to difficulty in navigation at sea with small vessels at risk of capsizing between Cape Point and Port Alfred, reaching East London in the evening.
Fire danger warnings:
Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the Beaufort West and Prince Albert municipalities in the Western Cape, Umsobomvu Local Municipality in Northern Cape, southern parts of Limpopo and northern and central parts of Gauteng.
The weather in your region:
Gauteng will be fine and warm but hot in the north.
The expected UVB sunburn index is extreme.
Mpumalanga will be fine and warm to hot but very hot in places on the Lowveld.
Limpopo will be fine and warm to hot.
The North West will be fine and cool to warm, becoming partly cloudy in the east in the late afternoon.
In the Free State, it will be fine and cool to warm, becoming partly cloudy in the east in the late afternoon. It will be windy in the extreme southern parts.
The Northern Cape will be cloudy to party cloudy and cold to cool with isolated showers in the south and south-west in the morning, otherwise fine and cold to cool but partly cloudy in the central parts in the morning.
The wind along the coast will be fresh south-westerly, becoming southerly towards the evening.
The Western Cape will be cloudy at times and cold to cool with isolated to scattered showers in the west and along the south coast until in the afternoon.
Light snowfall is expected over the Cape Winelands mountain peaks in the morning. It will be windy over the central and western interior.
The wind along the coast will be strong westerly to south-westerly, moderating in the west from the afternoon.
The expected UVB sunburn index is moderate.
The Eastern Cape will be partly cloudy and cool with light morning rain along the coast west of Cannon Rocks.
The wind along the coast will be strong south westerly.
The eastern half of the province will be partly cloudy and cool, but fine and warm in places in the east.
The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong south-westerly.
KwaZulu-Natal will be fine and warm but hot to very hot in places in the north.
It will become partly cloudy from the south-east in the afternoon with isolated evening showers and rain along the south coast and adjacent interior.
The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh northerly to north-easterly north of Durban, otherwise moderate southerly to south-westerly, spreading to the north by late morning.
The expected UVB sunburn index is high.
