Here’s a summary of the weather forecast for 20 May.
🌧️ A STRONG COLD FRONT is expected to bring SCATTERED TO WIDESPREAD showers and thunderstorms, STRONG winds, VERY COLD conditions, ROUGH SEAS, and SNOWFALL from Tuesday into Wednesday.
⚠️IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS issued by SAWS ⚠️
🟡Yellow Level 2: Damaging Winds and Waves leading to difficulty in navigation at sea and localised disruptions to small harbours and ports between Alexander Bay and Plettenberg Bay.
🟡Yellow Level 2: Damaging Winds leading to difficulty in navigation at sea and localised disruptions to small harbours and ports between Plettenberg Bay and Algoa Bay.
🟡Yellow Level 2: Damaging Interior Winds resulting in longer travel times, problems for high-sided vehicles on prone routes, localised damage to informal and formal settlements and communication/power disruptions over Northern Cape, except in the north-west and extreme northern parts, northern parts of Western Cape, central and northern parts of Eastern Cape, western Free State and south-western parts of North West Province.
🟡Yellow Level 2: Disruptive Rainfall is expected over the Cape Winelands, Cape Metropole, West Coast and western parts of the Overberg Districts of the Western Cape leading to localised flooding of susceptible formal and informal settlements, roads, low-lying areas and bridges.
🔥FIRE DANGER WARNINGS: 🔥 Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the Beaufort West Municipality of Western Cape, Thembelihle Municipality of Northern Cape and the extreme north-western parts of Free State.
🥶ADVISORIES: 🥶 Wet, windy, and cold to very cold conditions over western high-lying areas of the Western Cape and southern parts of the Northern Cape and Free State, with a possibility of light snow along the high-lying mountain tops of Western Cape, Eastern Cape up to the Lesotho until Wednesday. Farmers and small stock farmers are advised to provide proper shelter, dry bedding, and energy-rich feed to protect their animals against these conditions.
