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SAWS Issues Level 4 Severe-Thunderstorm Warning for Eastern Limpopo and Mpumalanga Today

Impact-based alerts signal a high risk of flooding with potential infrastructure damage.

Overview

  • SAWS warns that storms could deliver heavy downpours, damaging winds, excessive lightning and hail in the Level 4 area, with localized flooding possible.
  • A Level 2 alert covers south‑west and central Limpopo and the Highveld of Mpumalanga for severe thunderstorms with a risk of flooding and infrastructure damage.
  • A separate Level 2 warning highlights damaging coastal waves this morning between Alexander Bay and Plettenberg Bay.
  • Today’s national outlook indicates fine conditions in the western interior, with partly cloudy, cool to warm weather elsewhere and scattered to widespread showers in the east.
  • Provincial guidance points to widespread thundershowers in the Mpumalanga lowveld and the Limpopo Valley, while SAWS expects isolated to scattered thundershowers to recur in several provinces through the week.