Here’s a summary of the weather forecast for 5 August by Vox Weather.
🌧️SCATTERED TO WIDESPREAD SHOWERS are still expected over western South Africa as a COLD FRONT continues to sweep across the Cape.
🌧️A steep upper-air trough (developing into a CUT-OFF LOW by Wednesday) will drive a band of SCATTERED SHOWERS across the eastern Northern Cape, western Eastern Cape, and further eastwards into the North West, Free State, and the rest of the Eastern Cape overnight into Wednesday.
❄️FREEZING LEVELS will drop sharply, with ISOLATED LIGHT SNOW possible over southern Namibia. A mix of RAIN, SLEET, or SNOW may fall from the cloud band stretching across central South Africa from Tuesday into Wednesday.
⚠️IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS issued by SAWS ⚠️
🟡Yellow Level 1: Damaging Waves leading to localised disruption to beachfront activities, are expected between Alexander Bay and Plettenberg Bay.
🔥FIRE DANGER WARNINGS: 🔥 Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected in places over the western half of the North West, the north-eastern parts of KwaZulu-Natal as well as the Nyandeni Local Municipality of the Eastern Cape.
🥶ADVISORIES: 🥶
- Very cold, wet and windy conditions are expected in places over the interior of the Namakwa district (Northern Cape) and Witzenberg Municipality of the Western Cape.
