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Wednesday's weather: Severe thunderstorms expected over parts of Limpopo

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Thundershowers are expected in parts of the country.
Thundershowers are expected in parts of the country.
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The South African Weather Service issued a yellow level 2 warning for severe thunderstorms over the central parts of Limpopo.

Additionally, an orange level 6 warning for severe thunderstorms was issued for the south-western areas of Limpopo.

Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the Khai-Ma and Hantam local municipalities of the Northern Cape and Prince Albert in the Western Cape.

The weather in your region:

Gauteng will be partly cloudy and cool to warm, with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers.

The expected UVB sunburn index is very high.

Morning fog patches are expected over the Mpumalanga escarpment, otherwise it will be partly cloudy and cool to warm, with isolated showers and thundershowers.

There will be morning fog patches over the Limpopo escarpment. 

Otherwise, the province will be partly cloudy and warm, with scattered to widespread showers and thundershowers.

There will be isolated showers over the Lowveld.

The North West will be fine and warm to hot, becoming partly cloudy, with isolated showers and thundershowers, but scattered showers in the west.

It will be fine and cool to warm in the Free State, becoming partly cloudy, with isolated showers and thundershowers.

There will be scattered showers in the east.

Cool conditions will occur along the Northern Cape coast.

The province will be fine and warm to hot, becoming partly cloudy in the east, with isolated showers and thundershowers mainly in the extreme north-east.

The wind along the coast will be light and variable south of Hondeklip Bay in the morning, otherwise southerly to south-westerly, becoming moderate to fresh towards the afternoon.

It will be cool in places along the Western Cape coast.

Otherwise, the province will be fine and warm, but hot over the interior.

It will be partly cloudy over the extreme eastern parts of the south coast, where it will become cloudy from the afternoon.

The wind along the coast will be light and variable north of Table Bay in the morning, but moderate north-westerly between Cape Point and Cape Agulhas.

It will become fresh to strong east to south-easterly between Cape Columbine and George late in the evening.

The expected UVB sunburn index is extreme.

It will be fine and warm in the western half of the Eastern Cape, becoming cloudy along the coast in the evening, with light isolated showers.

The wind along the coast will be moderate north-easterly.

The eastern half of the province will be fine and warm, becoming cloudy, with isolated showers and thundershowers,

There will be scattered showers in the extreme east.

The wind along the coast will be moderate north-easterly.

Morning fog patches will occur over the interior of KwaZulu-Natal.

The province will be partly cloudy to cloudy and warm, but cool in places in the south-west.

Isolated showers and thundershowers are expected, except in the north-east.

There will be scattered showers in the south-west.

The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh easterly to north-easterly.

The expected UVB sunburn index is high.

Wednesday's temperatures
Wednesday's temperatures.

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