Overview
- Impact-based yellow level 2 warnings highlight severe thunderstorms with heavy downpours, hail, damaging winds and excessive lightning across Gauteng, the Highveld and escarpment of Mpumalanga, parts of Limpopo, and the eastern North West and Free State.
- Extremely high fire danger is forecast over large parts of the Northern Cape with pockets of risk in the Free State, the North West’s Lekwa-Teemane and the Western Cape’s Beaufort West area.
- A heat wave advisory remains in effect for the Eastern Cape’s Chris Hani, Joe Gqabi and northern Alfred Nzo districts through Wednesday.
- Recent severe weather included a tornado sighting near Dullstroom and hail in Dordrecht, with preliminary SAWS rainfall totals of 40 mm at Johannesburg Botanical Gardens and 29 mm at Pretoria Zoological Gardens.
- One outlet cited a yellow level 4 warning for Gauteng, though most official updates and reports reflect yellow level 2 messaging for severe thunderstorms.