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The weather forecast for March 6th

Last updated at 05:21 SAST

Warnings

Orange Level 5 Warning: Severe Thunderstorms with heavy
downpours leading to flooding of roads, settlements and
low-lying areas, as well as damaging winds, large amounts of small
hail and excessive lighting, are expected over the western region of
North West Province, including central and eastern regions of Free
State.

B. Yellow Level 4 Warning: Severe Thunderstorms with heavy
downpours leading to localised flooding of susceptible roads,
settlements, low-lying bridges/areas, as well as possible strong
damaging winds, hail, and excessive lightning are expected over
Gauteng, eastern region of North West and western Highveld
of Mpumalanga. Such conditions are expected across of KwaZulu-
Natal (except for the extreme north-east),


C. Yellow Level 2 Warning: Severe Thunderstorms with heavy
downpours leading to localised flooding of susceptible roads, settlements,
low-lying bridges/areas, hail, and excessive lightning, are expected over
the south-western and south-eastern region of Limpopo, eastern
Highveld and escarpment areas of Mpumalanga as well as south-western
Free State and extreme north-eastern areas of the Northern Cape,

D. Yellow Level 2 Warning: Damaging winds and waves leading
to small vessels taking on water and capsizing in a locality
and difficulty in navigation at sea, are expected between
Cape Point and Plettenberg Bay from the evening, into Saturday.

Special weather advisories

1. Hot to very hot and humid weather will result in extremely
uncomfortable conditions over the eastern parts of KwaZulu-Natal.

Rain +2 Hours

Rain +24 Hours

Temperature +24 Hours

Gauteng

Cloudy and cool with widespread showers and thundershowers. The expected UVB sunburn index: High

Mpumalanga

Cloudy and cool to warm with scattered to widespread showers and thundershowers but isolated in the Lowveld, where it will be hot.

Limpopo

Cloudy and warm to hot with scattered to widespread showers and thundershowers but isolated in the Lowveld and Limpopo Valley.

North-West Province

Cloudy and cool, with widespread showers and thundershowers.

Free State

Cloudy and cool to warm with scattered to widespread showers and thundershowers.

Northern Cape

Fog along the coast in the morning, where it will be cloudy, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm, becoming fine over the central interior by the afternoon. It will be partly cloudy with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers in the north-east but widespread in the extreme north-east.

The wind along the coast will be light to moderate northerly to north-westerly, becoming moderate southerly to south-westerly in the evening.

Western Cape

Cloudy to partly cloudy and cool to warm but hot over Beaufort West municipality with isolated showers and rain over the south and south-western parts from the afternoon, but fine overt the central parts in the morning.

The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh northerly to north-westerly along the west coast, but light and variable along the south coast until the afternoon. It will become fresh to strong south-westerly to westerly along the south-west and southern coast from the evening spreading to west coast by the end of the period.

The expected UVB sunburn index: Very High

Western Half Of The Eastern Cape

Partly cloudy and warm with light morning rain in places. The wind along the coast will be light south-westerly, becoming light south-easterly in the afternoon but moderate south-westerly overnight.

Eastern Half Of The Eastern Cape

Cloudy to partly cloudy and warm with scattered showers and thundershowers, clearing from the west in the afternoon.

The wind along the coast will be light and variable, becoming light southerly from late morning.


Updated at 05:21 SAST