A mixed bag of fires, frost and isolated showers are in store for Friday. (Kinga Krzeminska/Getty Images)
A mix of weather conditions are expected for the end of the week, according to the South African Weather Service, including high fire danger in parts of the North West and Northern Cape, frost in the Western and Eastern Cape, and showers in KwaZulu-Natal and the Free State.
Fire danger warnings
High fire conditions are expected over the western parts of North West and the Dawid Kruiper and Kai !Garib Districts in the Northern Cape.
The weather in your region
Gauteng: Partly cloudy and cool.
- Pretoria 7°C — 21°C
- Johannesburg 5°C — 19°C
- Vereeniging 5°C — 19°C
Mpumalanga: Cloudy and cold to cool, with light rain in the east.
- Mbombela 10°C — 13°C
- Ermelo 2°C — 8°C
- Emalahleni 5°C — 16°C
- Standerton 3°C — 7°C
- Skukuza 7°C — 19°C
Limpopo: Cloudy and warm, with drizzle and light rain in the east.
- Polokwane 5°C — 18°C
- Phalaborwa 14°C — 24°C
- Tzaneen 8°C — 17°C
- Musina 13°C — 19°C
- Lephalale 8°C — 22°C
- Mokopane 6°C — 21°C
North West: Partly cloudy, windy and cool.
- Klerksdorp 5°C — 20°C
- Potchefstroom 3°C — 19°C
- Mahikeng 8°C — 21°C
- Rustenburg 10°C — 19°C
- Vryburg -3°C — 23°C
Free State: Morning fog patches in the east, otherwise partly cloudy, windy and cold to cool, with isolated showers over the extreme east.
- Bloemfontein -2°C — 20°C
- Welkom 4°C — 20°C
- Bethlehem -4°C — 14°C
Northern Cape: Fine and cool to warm. The wind along the coast will be fresh south-easterly.
- Upington 1°C — 26°C
- Kimberley -4°C — 23°C
- De Aar -4°C — 19°C
- Alexander Bay 9°C — 34°C
- Springbok 7°C — 25°C
- Calvinia -3°C — 20°C
- Sutherland -6°C — 18°C
Western Cape: Frost with mist over the interior, otherwise fine and cool, but warm in places along the west coast.
The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong east to south-easterly, but light to moderate north-easterly along the south coast at first.
- Cape Town 8°C — 20°C
- Vredendal 5°C — 26°C
- Riversdale 2°C — 21°C
- George 5°C — 19°C
- Worcester 0°C — 20°C
- Beaufort West -1°C — 20°C
- Oudtshoorn -2°C — 21°C
Eastern Cape: Morning fog patches over the interior, otherwise fine and cool. The wind along the coast will be light north-westerly, becoming fresh to strong easterly in the afternoon, but north-easterly in the evening.
The eastern half of the province will have morning fog patches over the interior, otherwise fine and cool to cold, becoming partly cloudy in places along the coast in the afternoon.
Frost is expected in the north. The wind along the coast will be moderate south-westerly, becoming fresh to strong north-easterly in the afternoon.
- Gqeberha 7°C — 19°C
- Makhanda 2°C — 19°C
- Cradock -2°C — 21°C
- Graaff-Reinet -3°C — 21°C
- East London 9°C — 19°C
- Port St Johns 10°C — 18°C
- Umtata 2°C — 18°C
- Komani -1°C — 18°C
- Qonce 4°C — 19°C
KwaZulu-Natal: Morning fog patches and rain over the south and western interior, otherwise cloudy and very cold to cold, with isolated showers and rain, but scattered in the north-east.
The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly to south-easterly, becoming northerly to north-easterly in the evening.
- Durban 13°C — 18°C
- Richards Bay 14°C — 19°C
- Pietermaritzburg 8°C — 15°C
- Ladysmith 4°C — 12°C
*This weather report was written with the support of Toqan AI.
