Here’s a summary of the weather forecast for 24 February by Vox Weather.
⚠️🌧️ The cut-off low responsible for Monday’s heavy rain will exit the country along the Eastern Cape coast this Tuesday. Its tail is set to bring heavy rain to Nelson Mandela Bay and surrounding areas, while a band of rain and thunderstorms stretches across central South Africa and slowly shifts eastwards through the day.
⚠️IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS issued by SAWS ⚠️
🟡 Yellow Level 4: Severe thunderstorms accompanied by heavy downpours leading to localised flooding of susceptible roads, settlements, low-lying areas and bridges, damage to infrastructure, as well as difficult driving conditions is expected over Dr Beyers Naud, Sundays River Valley, Koukamma, Nelson Mandela Metro and Kouga Local Municipalities as well as the extreme southern parts of KwaZulu-Natal and the extreme south eastern parts of the Northern Cape.
🟡 Yellow Level 2: Severe thunderstorms accompanied by heavy downpours leading to localised flooding of susceptible roads, settlements, low-lying areas and bridges, as well as difficult driving conditions is expected over Blue Crane Route, Makanda and Ndlambe Local Municipalities, as well as the eastern parts of the Western Cape and Northern Cape, North West, Free State except the extreme north eastern parts, and KwaZulu-Natal.🌫️ Another foggy morning along the West Coast as well as interior of the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.
⛈️Cloudy to partly cloudy across the interior with isolated showers and thunderstorms but becoming scattered in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga.
🥵Warm to hot across the country.
⚠️IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS issued by SAWS ⚠️
🟡Yellow Level 2 Warning: Severe Thunderstorms With large amount of small hail, excessive lightning, heavy downpours leading localised flooding of susceptible roads, settlements, as well as low-lying bridges/areas over the south-western areas of KwaZulu-Natal.
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