Damaging winds are expected along sections of the Western and Eastern Cape's coastal areas. (Munir Uz Zaman/AFP)
Damaging winds are expected along sections of the Western and Eastern Cape's coastal areas, according to the South African Weather Service(SAWS).
Colder conditions are expected in the Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, and parts of KwaZulu-Natal, especially in the extreme south.
Impact-based warnings
Yellow Level 2 warning: Severe thunderstorms leading to large amounts of small hail over an open area, as well as localised flooding of susceptible roads, low-lying areas and bridges are expected over the eastern parts of the North West, extreme eastern parts of the Free State, Gauteng, and the south and central parts of Mpumalanga.
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Yellow Level 2 warning: Damaging winds and waves resulting in difficulty in navigation and small vessels taking on water and capsizing are expected along the coast between Plettenberg Bay and Port Edward in the Western Cape.
Yellow Level 2 warning: Damaging waves resulting in difficulty in navigation at sea and small vessels at risk of taking on water and capsizing are expected between Cape Point and Plettenberg Bay on Thursday and Friday.
Weather update for today and tomorrow, 30 April 2025 - 01 May 2025:Isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers are expected in most parts of the country, with widespread in the south today. ?? Severe thunderstorms, Damaging winds and waves#saws pic.twitter.com/2qnDrrDVhI
— SA Weather Service (@SAWeatherServic) April 30, 2025
In the SAWS' colour-coded weather warning system, yellow indicates a moderate risk of impact that requires caution and awareness, while orange indicates that higher-risk impact is expected, requiring increased attention and preparation.
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SAWS uses the numbers to indicate the likelihood of weather-based impacts occurring. Level 2 is high.
WHAT IS AN IMPACT-BASED WEATHER WARNING?How often do you come across news reports suggesting that the South African Weather Service (SAWS) has issued an Impact-Based Weather Warning of a certain level and a particular colour-coding? What does it mean?Thread?? pic.twitter.com/Gs5mocCBwi
— SA Weather Service (@SAWeatherServic) April 15, 2025
Advisories
Very cold, wet and windy conditions are expected over the southern Namakwa District of the Northern Cape, Cape Winelands, Central and Little Karoo municipalities of the Western Cape until Friday.
The weather in your province
Gauteng:Cloudy in the south, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with scattered showers and thundershowers.
Pretoria: 14°C — 24°C
Johannesburg: 11°C — 22°C
Vereeniging: 9°C — 22°C
Mpumalanga:Cloudy in the south, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers, except in the Lowveld.
Mbombela: 18°C — 27°C
Ermelo: 10°C — 20°C
Emalahleni: 10°C — 22°C
Standerton: 9°C — 21°C
Skukuza: 18°C — 36°C
Limpopo:Morning fog patches in the southwest, otherwise partly cloudy and warm with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers in the south and southwestern parts.
Polokwane: 12°C — 26°C
Phalaborwa: 17°C — 34°C
Tzaneen: 14°C — 30°C
Musina: 15°C — 32°C
Lephalale: 13°C — 29°C
Mokopane: 13°C — 27°C
North West:Morning fog patches in places, otherwise partly cloudy, windy, and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers, becoming scattered in the east.
Klerksdorp: 11°C — 23°C
Potchefstroom: 10°C — 23°C
Mahikeng: 12°C — 24°C
Rustenburg: 12°C — 24°C
Vryburg: 12°C — 22°C
Free State:Morning fog patches over the eastern parts, otherwise partly cloudy, windy, and cool to warm, with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers over the eastern and central parts.
Bloemfontein: 10°C — 19°C
Welkom: 11°C — 21°C
Bethlehem: 9°C — 18°C
Northern Cape:Fine in the extreme northwest, otherwise partly cloudy, windy, and cool to warm. It will be cold to very cold in the southwest where light rain is expected from the afternoon.
Coastal winds will be light to moderate northerly to north-easterly in the morning, becoming moderate to fresh south-westerly later.
Upington: 9°C — 18°C
Kimberley: 11°C — 18°C
De Aar: 8°C — 16°C
Alexander Bay: 13°C — 22°C
Springbok: 6°C — 14°C
Calvinia: 3°C — 11°C
Sutherland: 1°C — 8°C
Western Cape:Fine over the eastern parts in the morning, otherwise cloudy and cold with isolated showers and rain, becoming scattered in the south and southwest.
Coastal winds will be fresh to strong westerly to north-westerly along the south coast in the morning, otherwise moderate to fresh westerly to south-westerly.
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Cape Town: 13°C — 15°C
Vredendal: 10°C — 17°C
Riversdale: 10°C — 15°C
George: 10°C — 16°C
Worcester: 8°C — 14°C
Beaufort West: 9°C — 16°C
Oudtshoorn: 9°C — 16°C
Eastern Cape:Windy and cold in places, otherwise cloudy and cool with isolated showers and rain south of the escarpment, becoming partly cloudy in the north by the afternoon.
Gqeberha: 13°C — 19°C
Makhanda: 10°C — 18°C
Cradock: 8°C — 18°C
Graaff-Reinet: 8°C — 16°C
East London: 14°C — 21°C
Port St Johns: 16°C — 22°C
Mthatha: 9°C — 20°C
Komani: 8°C — 18°C
Qonce: 11°C — 18°C
KwaZulu-Natal:Cloudy in the east with morning and evening fog in the central interior, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm, with isolated showers and rain. Colder conditions expected in the extreme south.
Coastal winds will be moderate to fresh northerly to north-easterly in the north at first, turning fresh to strong southerly to south-westerly.
Durban: 20°C — 22°C
Richard’s Bay: 21°C — 24°C
Pietermaritzburg: 15°C — 18°C
Ladysmith: 14°C — 24°C
*This weather report was written with the support of Toqan AI.
