A cold front is expected to hit at least four provinces. (Misha Jordaan/Gallo Images)
A cold front with icy conditions is expected to hit at least four provinces, but according to the South African Weather Service, fine and warm temperatures are forecast in most parts of the country.
Impact-based warnings
A Yellow Level 1 warning for interior winds resulting in localised damage to settlements, temporary structures and difficult driving conditions has been issued for the Chris Hani District of the Eastern Cape.
A Yellow Level 1 warning has been issued for coastal winds leading to difficulty in navigation at sea between Saldanha Bay and Cape Point.
A Yellow Level 2 warning for damaging winds resulting in localised damage to settlements, temporary structures and difficult driving conditions has been issued for places along the Eastern Cape coast between Oyster Bay and Port Alfred.
A Yellow Level 2 warning has been issued for damaging wind and waves resulting in localised disruption to small harbours/ports and difficulty in navigation for small vessels between East London and Port Edward from the afternoon.
A Yellow Level 3 warning for damaging wind and waves resulting in the disruption of small harbours and beachfront activities has been issued between Cape Point and Plettenberg Bay.
A Yellow Level 4 warning has been issued for damaging wind and waves resulting in disruption to small harbours/ports and risk to medium vessels of dragging anchor/breaking mooring lines between Plettenberg Bay and East London.
Fire danger warnings
Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the eastern parts of the Northern Cape, the western parts of the Free State, in places over the northern interior of the Eastern Cape, and the northern interior of KwaZulu-Natal.
Advisories
A cold front is expected to result in very cold and windy conditions in places over the southern parts of the Namakwa District of the Northern Cape and the Witzenberg Municipality of the Western Cape, spreading to the interior of the Eastern Cape and the south-western interior of KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday.
The weather in your region
Fine and warm temperatures in Gauteng.
The expected UVB sunburn index is very high.
Mpumalanga and Limpopo will be fine and warm, but hot in the extreme southern parts of the Lowveld and Limpopo Valley.
Fine and warm temperatures are expected in the North West and the Free State. It will be windy in the extreme west.
The Northern Cape can expect fine, windy and cool to warm conditions, but it will be cloudy and cold in the west and south with light morning rain in the south-west.
It will be very cold over the southern high ground.
The wind along the coast will be light and variable in the morning, otherwise moderate to fresh southerly to south-easterly, becoming strong from late afternoon.
Fine conditions are forecast for the Western Cape over the north-eastern parts at first.
Otherwise, it will be cloudy, windy and cold with isolated showers and rain, but scattered over the south-western parts where it will becoming partly cloudy from the afternoon.
The wind along the coast will be a fresh to strong westerly to north-westerly, becoming southerly to south-westerly over the western parts during the morning, spreading eastwards and reaching near-gale force along the south coast in the afternoon.
The expected UVB sunburn index is low.
The western half of the Eastern Cape will have morning fog patches in the south.
Otherwise, partly cloudy and cool to warm temperatures are expected, but it will be cloudy in the south with isolated showers and rain along the coast and adjacent interior from the afternoon.
It will be cold in the extreme south-west.
The wind along the coast will be a fresh to strong south-westerly, reaching gale force from late morning, moderating in the evening.
Cloudy conditions are forecast in the eastern half of the province’s south-west.
Otherwise, it will be fine and warm to hot, becoming cloudy along the coast and adjacent interior, with isolated showers and rain in the afternoon.
The wind along the coast will be a moderate to fresh south-westerly, becoming strong to gale force in the south in the afternoon, spreading northwards in the evening.
Fine and warm to hot temperatures are expected in KwaZulu-Natal, becoming partly cloudy to cloudy in the southern and eastern parts from late afternoon into the evening.
The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh northerly to north-easterly in the north.
Otherwise a light and variable wind is forecast, becoming moderate to fresh southerly to south-westerly in the south from the afternoon, spreading northwards and reaching strong to near-gale force in places in the evening.
The expected UVB sunburn index is extreme.
