Calmer weather expected across SA, but winter is coming

Calmer weather is expected across the country, with the South African Weather Services (Saws) issuing no warnings for adverse conditions.

Several parts of the country experienced severe thunderstorms, resulting in heavy downpours and flooding in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN).

Parts of the Free State, Mpumalanga, Gauteng and North West were also not spared.  The situation was exacerbated when Eskom implemented stage 2 load shedding on Thursday.

South Africa experienced colder weather this week in the country as winter approaches.

With moderate weather expected for Sunday, Saws only warned of extremely high fire danger conditions over the West Coast and the western parts of the Garden Route district of the Western Cape.

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Provincial weather forecast

Here’s what to expect in your province on Saturday, 26 April:

Gauteng

Fine in the morning, otherwise partly cloudy and cool but warm in the north.

Mpumalanga

Morning fog patches in the Lowveld and along the escarpment, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm.

Limpopo

Saws said Limpopo will experience morning fog patches in the central parts, otherwise it will be partly cloudy and cool to warm.

North West

The North West will be fine and cool to warm, becoming partly cloudy.

Free State

Residents can anticipate fine and cool weather becoming partly cloudy.

Northern Cape

Fine and warm to hot, but very hot over Richtersveld municipality. The wind along the coast will be light and variable, but moderate south-easterly in the afternoon.

Western Cape

Morning fog along the south coast, otherwise fine and warm to  hot. Evening fog is expected along the west coast.

The wind along the coast will be light to moderate west to north-westerly along the west coast, otherwise easterly.

Western half of the Eastern Cape

Hot with morning fog in places in the south, otherwise fine and warm.

The wind along the coast will be light and variable in places, otherwise light to moderate north-easterly.

Eastern half of the Eastern Cape

The eastern half of the Eastern Cape will experience fog in places, otherwise it will be fine and warm, but cool in the north with evening fog in places along the Wild Coast and adjacent interior from the evening.

The wind along the coast will be light and variable in places, otherwise light to moderate north-easterly, reaching fresh at times.

KwaZulu-Natal

Morning fog over the interior, otherwise partly cloudy and  cool, but warm in the east. Isolated showers and rain are expected along the coast and adjacent interior, except in the south coast.

The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly to south-westerly, becoming easterly to north-easterly from the south in the afternoon.

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