Here’s a comprehensive outlook on the South Africa weather forecast for Tuesday, 26 December 2023.
Weather warnings and advisories to take note of on Tuesday, 26 December 2023
Severe weather alerts:
- Impact-Based Warnings:
- A. Yellow level 4 warning: Severe thunderstorms with large amounts of small hail, heavy downpours leading to flooding of roads, settlements (formal and informal), low-lying areas, and bridges over the central and southern parts of Mpumalanga.
- B. Yellow level 2 warning: Severe thunderstorms with large amounts of small hail, heavy downpours leading to localized damage and flooding of roads, settlements (formal and informal), low-lying areas, and bridges over KwaZulu-Natal, north-eastern parts of Mpumalanga, Gauteng, east and central Free State, extreme eastern parts of North West, and southern parts of Limpopo.
- C. Yellow level 2 warning: Disruptive rain leading to localized flooding of susceptible settlements, roads, low-lying areas, and bridges, as well as localized disruption to municipal services over the eastern half of the Eastern Cape.
- D. Yellow level 3 warning: Damaging winds leading to disruption of beachfront activities and difficulty in navigation at sea between Lambert’s Bay and Cape Agulhas, including the City of Cape Town where the risk of runaway fires is possible.
- E. Yellow level 2 warning: Waves leading to small vessels such as personal watercraft taking on water in the locality are expected between Cape Point and Port Nolloth.
- Fire Danger Warnings: Extremely high fire conditions are expected in places over the City of Cape Town and the Saldanha Bay municipalities of the Western Cape.
- Advisories: None reported.
South Africa weather forecast: Here’s what to expect on Tuesday, 26 December 2023
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Here is a regional breakdown of the weather forecast for South Africa on Tuesday, 26 December 2023:
- Gauteng: Cloudy and cool to warm with widespread showers and thundershowers. The expected UVB sunburn index: Low.
- Mpumalanga: Morning fog patches and drizzle along the escarpment, otherwise cloudy and cool to warm with widespread showers and thundershowers in the west but isolated to scattered in the east.
- Limpopo: Morning fog patches and drizzle along the escarpment, otherwise cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers, but scattered to widespread in the west.
- North-West Province: Partly cloudy and warm to hot with scattered showers and thundershowers, but widespread in the east where it will be cloudy.
- Free State: Partly cloudy and warm with scattered showers and thundershowers, but widespread in the central and eastern parts where it will be cloudy.
- Northern Cape: Fine in the west in the morning where it will be cool to warm, otherwise partly cloudy and hot to very hot with isolated showers and thundershowers. It will be windy in the southern parts in the evening. The wind along the coast will be strong southerly becoming near gale in the afternoon.
- Western Cape: Fine in the west where it will be hot in places, otherwise cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and rain along the south coast and adjacent interior but scattered east of Riversdale. The wind along the coast will be strong southerly to south-easterly, reaching near gale to gale force along the west coast in the afternoon through to the evening. It will be moderate to fresh easterly to south-easterly along the south coast. The expected UVB sunburn index: Extreme.
- Western Half of the Eastern Cape: Cloudy and cool with scattered showers and thundershowers but isolated over the north-west. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly, becoming south-easterly in the afternoon.
- Eastern Half of the Eastern Cape: Cloudy and cool with widespread showers and thundershowers but scattered in the north-west. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate south-westerly, becoming moderate to fresh southerly south of Coffee Bay in the morning, spreading to Port St. Johns by late evening.
- KwaZulu-Natal: Morning fog over the interior, otherwise cloudy and warm but cool in the south-west with widespread showers and thundershowers. The wind along the coast will be moderate north-easterly in the extreme north, otherwise moderate southerly to south-westerly. The expected UVB sunburn index: Low.
We will continue to update this report as more information becomes available. Stay tuned for the latest weather news and advisories.