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Friday's weather: Disruptive rain, flooding in parts of Gauteng, Mpumalanga and Limpopo

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Disruptive rain and flooding is expected for three provinces.
Disruptive rain and flooding is expected for three provinces.
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The South African Weather Service issued a yellow level 2 warning for disruptive rain and flooding in parts of Gauteng, Mpumalanga and Limpopo.

Impact-based warnings:

A yellow level 2 warning for disruptive rain, leading to localised flooding of informal/formal settlements, low-lying roads and low-lying areas, is expected along the escarpment and over Gauteng, the Highveld of Mpumalanga, and the escarpment and Lowveld of Limpopo.

Fire danger warnings: 

Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the Kamiesberg municipality of the Namakwa district.

The weather in your region:  

Gauteng will be partly cloudy and warm, with scattered afternoon showers and thundershowers.

The expected UVB sunburn index is high.

In Mpumalanga, the weather will be partly cloudy and cool to warm, with scattered showers and thundershowers.

Limpopo will be partly cloudy and warm to hot, with isolated showers and thundershowers from the afternoon, but scattered in the east and south.

It will be very hot in the Limpopo Valley.

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

In the Free State, it will be partly cloudy and warm, with isolated afternoon thundershowers, but scattered in the east, where it will be cloudy and cool.

The Northern Cape will be partly cloudy in the far east, with isolated thundershowers, otherwise fine and warm to hot.

The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong southerly to south-easterly.

The Western Cape will be partly cloudy along the south-eastern parts, with a chance of light rain, otherwise fine and cool to warm.

The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh, but strong in the afternoon southerly to south-easterly, but easterly along the south coast.

The expected UVB sunburn index is very high.

The Eastern Cape will be cloudy and cool, but warm in the north, with isolated showers and rain along the coast and adjacent interior, becoming partly cloudy from midday.

The wind along the coast will be light to moderate south-easterly, becoming easterly from late morning.

The eastern half of the province will be cloudy and cool, with isolated showers and rain, but scattered in the east.

The wind along the coast will be light westerly in the morning, otherwise light south-easterly.

KwaZulu-Natal will have morning fog over the interior, otherwise cloudy and cool, with scattered showers and thundershowers.

The wind along the coast will be moderate northerly to north-westerly north of Richards Bay at first, otherwise moderate to fresh southerly to south-westerly.

It will become moderate south-easterly from the south in the afternoon, spreading to Richards Bay in the evening.

The expected UVB sunburn index is moderate.

The temperature in your city.
The temperature in your city.
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