19/05/2025
TRAVELLERS WEATHER FORECAST FOR TOMORROW: 2025-05-20
ISSUED AT 15:30 SAST BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN WEATHER SERVICE.
THIS FORECAST WILL BE UPDATED AT 04:30 SAST.
SEVERE WEATHER ALERTS:
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IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS:
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A. Yellow Level 2 Damaging Winds and Waves: Difficulty in navigation at sea
and localised disruptions to small harbours and ports between Alexander
Bay and Plettenberg Bay.
B. Yellow Level 2 Damaging Winds: Difficulty in navigation at sea and
localised disruptions to small harbours and ports between Plettenberg Bay
and Algoa Bay.
C. Yellow Level 2 Disruptive Rainfall: Localised flooding of susceptible
formal and informal settlements, roads, low-lying areas and bridges over
the Cape Winelands, Cape Metropole, West Coast and western parts of the
Overberg Districts of the Western Cape.
D. 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.
FIRE DANGER WARNINGS:
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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:
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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
PRETORIA:
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