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Saturday's weather: Thundershowers expected with severe storm warnings for several regions

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Rain is expected in certain parts of the country.
Rain is expected in certain parts of the country.
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The South African Weather Service has issued a warning for severe thunderstorms with hail, damaging winds and heavy downpours over the interior of the Eastern Cape, eastern parts of the Northern Cape and western parts of the Free State and North West.

A warning for disruptive rain leading to flooded roads is expected over Gauteng, the central and eastern parts of the Free State and North West, western Highveld of Mpumalanga and western Bushveld of Limpopo.

Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the Laingsburg Municipality in the Western Cape.

The weather in your region:

Gauteng will be cloudy and cool with widespread showers and thundershowers. It will be cold in the south.

The expected UVB sunburn index is low.

It will be cloudy and cool with scattered to widespread showers and thundershowers in Mpumalanga.

There will be isolated showers in the extreme east.

The east of Limpopo will be warm, otherwise cloudy, and cool conditions with scattered to widespread showers and thundershowers will prevail.

Isolated showers will occur in the east.

The North West will be cloudy and cool to warm, with scattered showers and thundershowers, but widespread showers in the east.

It will be cloudy and cool to warm with scattered to widespread showers and thundershowers in the Free State.

The Northern Cape will be cloudy to partly cloudy and cool to warm with drizzle in the south-west and isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers in the east.

The wind along the coast will be light to moderate north-westerly.

It will be cloudy to partly cloudy and cool to warm, with drizzle along the west coast of the Western Cape until the afternoon.

Light rain will fall over the western parts of the province in the evening.

Isolated thundershowers are expected over the extreme eastern parts.

The wind along the coast will be light to moderate south-easterly in the south, becoming fresh to strong south-westerly towards the afternoon, otherwise moderate to fresh north-westerly.

The expected UVB sunburn index is high.

The western half of the Eastern Cape will be cloudy and warm with scattered showers and thundershowers from late morning. It will be hot in places over the interior.

The wind along the coast will be light north-easterly, becoming strong south-westerly from midday.

Cloudy and warm conditions with scattered showers and thundershowers will occur in the eastern half of the province from the afternoon.

The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh north-easterly, becoming light south-westerly overnight.

Morning fog will occur over the interior of KwaZulu-Natal, otherwise it will be partly cloudy and warm, becoming cloudy in the afternoon.

There will be isolated showers and thundershowers over the province, but scattered showers in the west.

The wind along the coast will be moderate easterly to north-easterly, becoming fresh in the afternoon.

The expected UVB sunburn index is high.

Saturday's temperatures
Saturday's temperatures.

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