Here’s a summary of the weather forecast for 29 October by Vox Weather.
🌀 Category 5 Hurricane Melissa is set to bring destructive impacts to Jamaica and Cuba over the next hours and days, with sustained winds over 280 km/h and potential rainfall totals exceeding 1 m. ⛈️ Back home – SCATTERED to WIDESPREAD showers and thunderstorms remain likely over central and north-eastern South Africa.
⚠️IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS issued by SAWS ⚠️
🟡Yellow Level 2: Severe thunderstorms accompanied by heavy downpours, excessive lightning, damaging winds and large amounts of small hail may result in localised flooding of susceptible roads, low-lying areas and bridges, localised damage to infrastructure, settlements, property, localised injuries due to flying debris and minor vehicle accidents over Gauteng, most parts of North West and Free State, northern parts of Northern Cape, the Highveld of Mpumalanga, and over the western and northern parts of KwaZulu-Natal.
🔥FIRE DANGER WARNINGS: 🔥 Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the Kamiesberg, Hantam, Dawid Kruiper, and Ubuntu municipalities of the Northern Cape, and the Matzikama and Swartland municipalities of the Western Cape.
🥵ADVISORIES: 🥵 Hot and humid weather will result in extremely uncomfortable conditions over the extreme north-eastern parts of KwaZulu-Natal.
