Shorts and slops or an umbrella? Here’s what the weather holds for every province in South Africa on Friday, 1 December 2023.
Severe weather alerts
IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS
A yellow level 1 warning: Damaging winds resulting in difficulty in navigation at sea, disruption to ports, breaking mooring lines and dragging anchors are expected between Cannon Rocks and Port Edward.
FIRE DANGER WARNINGS:
Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the eastern parts of Northern Cape, the north-eastern parts of Western Cape, in places over eastern cape as well as the western parts of North-West Province and Free State.
ADVISORIES:
A. Extremely uncomfortable conditions are expected over the Central Karoo in the Western Cape.
B. Extremely hot conditions (day temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius and above) are expected in places over Central Karoo in the Western Cape.
C. Heatwave conditions resulting in persistently high temperatures over and above the average maximum expected over Gauteng and the eastern parts of the North-West Province on Saturday (2 December 2023) but will include the Lowveld of Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Free State on Sunday, persisting up to at least Tuesday (5 December 2023).
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Conditions and UVB forecast
Gauteng
Temperature: Partly cloudy and warm.
The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Extreme
Mpumalanga
Temperature: Morning fog patches along the escarpment, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm but hot in the Lowveld.
Limpopo
Temperature: Morning fog patches along the southern escarpment, otherwise partly cloudy and warm.
North West
Temperature: Partly cloudy and warm to hot.
Free State
Temperature: Partly cloudy and warm to hot.
Northern Cape
Temperature: Morning fog along the coast, otherwise partly cloudy, windy and hot to very hot with isolated showers and thundershowers over the central parts.
Wind: The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh south- westerly.
Western Cape
Temperature: Cloudy along the coast in the morning, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot, but very hot in places over the interior. It will be extremely hot in places over the Central Karoo.
Wind: The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh easterly along the south coast in the morning, otherwise moderate to fresh south-westerly. It will become strong along the south coast by afternoon.
The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Extreme
Eastern Cape
The Western half: Extremely hot in places over interior, otherwise partly cloudy and very hot, but hot in places along the coast.
The Western half – The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong south- westerly
The Eastern half: Hot in places in the north and along wild coast, otherwise fine and very hot, becoming partly cloudy along the coast the afternoon.
The Eastern half – Wind: The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong north easterly, becoming light to moderate south westerly in the afternoon.
KwaZulu-Natal
Temperature: Morning fog patches over the interior, otherwise fine and warm to hot. It will be partly cloudy in the extreme north.
Wind: The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh easterly to north easterl
The expected UVB Sunburn Index: Extreme
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Weather forecast data provided by the South African Weather Service. For a detailed forecast of your province, click here.
