A heatwave is expected to hit the Eastern Cape on Friday. (Chuchart Duangdaw/Getty Images)
A heatwave is expected to hit the Eastern Cape, but it will be fine and cool to warm for most of the country, according to the South African Weather Service.
Impact-based warnings
A Yellow Level 4 warning for damaging waves leading to the disruption of beachfront activities between Port Edward and Richards Bay in the morning has been issued.
Fire danger warnings
Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the central and northern parts of the Northern Cape, as well as the Dr Beyers Naude, Inxuba Yethemba, and Enoch Mgijima municipalities in the Eastern Cape.
Advisories
A heatwave with persistently high temperatures is forecast for the Alfred Nzo District Municipality in the Eastern Cape and is expected to persist until Sunday.
The weather in your region
Gauteng will be fine and cool to warm.
The expected UVB sunburn index is high.
Fine and cool to warm conditions are forecast for Mpumalanga and Limpopo, but it will be hot on the Lowveld.
The North West and Free State can expect fine, and cool to warm temperatures.
Morning fog is expected in the Northern Cape along the coast where it will become partly cloudy.
Otherwise, it will be fine and cool to warm but windy in the interior where frost can be expected in places in the morning.
The wind along the coast will be light to moderate south to south-westerly.
The Western Cape will have morning frost over the interior, otherwise fine and cool to warm conditions are forecast with fog patches along the west and south coasts in the morning.
The wind along the coast will be light and variable along the south coast in the morning.
Otherwise, a moderate south-easterly is expected, becoming north-westerly south of Table Bay by the evening.
The expected UVB sunburn index is moderate.
Fine and warm temperatures are forecast for the western half of the Eastern Cape, but it will be cool along the coast.
The wind along the coast will be moderate south-westerly, becoming easterly in the afternoon.
The eastern half of the province will be fine and warm but cool along the coast.
The wind along the coast will be light north-westerly at first, otherwise a light to moderate south-westerly wind is forecast, becoming light north-easterly in the evening.
KwaZulu-Natal can expect partly cloudy conditions in the morning, otherwise it will be fine and warm.
A wind northerly wind along the coast will be fresh to strong in the north, otherwise a light to moderate northerly to north-easterly wind is expected.
The expected UVB sunburn index is high.
