Warning: Cold weather snap approaching
The South African Weather service says a cold snap is expected to affect most of the country from Wednesday onwards.
POLOKWANE – Don’t pack away your winter woolies just yet.
The South African Weather service says cold daytime temperatures are expected to dominate the south-western parts of the country on Wednesday, 16 August, spreading to the eastern parts on Thursday.
“Some places in the high-lying central and the eastern interior are likely to experience daytime temperatures of the order of only 5 to 10 degrees Celsius for up to three consecutive days,” it said in a statement.
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The weather service says the extreme weather conditions are due to the development of an intense trough (an extension of a low pressure) in the upper portions of the atmosphere, which is expected to move over the country on Wednesday.
“Thereafter, the trough is likely to intensify further, becoming a so-called cut-off low pressure system on Thursday, 17 August 2017. By Friday, this weather system is expected to exit the country, when rainfall will be restricted to the eastern extremities of the country, heralding a return to dry, settled weather this weekend,” it concluded.
