News24.com | Your weather: Severe thunderstorms will continue to plague SA on Friday

Thundershowers are expected in parts of the country.

According to the South African Weather Service, severe weather is expected in parts of South Africa, with impact-based warnings issued for thunderstorms.

Impact-based warnings:

A yellow level 2 warning for severe thunderstorms, with possible damaging winds and heavy downpours, leading to localised flooding of low-lying bridges, settlements and roads, as well as damage to infrastructure, is expected over the central and southern parts of Limpopo and Mpumalanga as well as central and western parts of the Eastern Cape.

A yellow level 4 warning for severe thunderstorms, resulting in flooding and large amounts of small hail, is expected over the southern interior of Namakwa in the Northern Cape and Western Cape until Saturday.

An orange level 6 warning for severe thunderstorms, resulting in flooding and large amounts of small hail, is expected over the western and central parts of the Western Cape on Friday, but over the central and southern parts until Saturday.

Weather in your region:

Gauteng will be cloudy and warm, with widespread showers and thundershowers. 

The expected UVB sunburn index is extreme.

In Mpumalanga, it will be cloudy and cool to warm, but hot in places in the Lowveld, with widespread showers and thundershowers, but scattered in the east.

A cloudy and warm to hot day is expected in Limpopo, with scattered showers and thundershowers, but widespread in the central and southern parts.

The North West, will be cloudy and warm, with scattered showers and thundershowers, but widespread in the east.

Conditions in the Free State are expected to be cloudy and warm, with scattered showers and thundershowers, but widespread in the east.

The Northern Cape will be partly cloudy and warm to hot, becoming cloudy in the east, with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers.

It will be cloudy, with fog patches, along the coast in the morning, where it will be cool, with light and variable wind, becoming moderate south-westerly from the afternoon.

In the Western Cape, it will be cloudy to partly cloudy and cool to warm, with scattered to widespread showers and thundershowers.

The wind along the coast will be light to moderate northerly to north-westerly along the west coast, otherwise moderate to fresh southerly to south-easterly.

The expected UVB sunburn index is very high.

It will be partly cloudy and warm to hot in the Eastern Cape, becoming cloudy, with widespread showers and thundershowers.

The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly to south-westerly.

In KwaZulu-Natal, it will be partly cloudy and warm, becoming cloudy in the afternoon, with scattered showers and thundershowers, but isolated in the east.

The wind along the coast will be light south-westerly in the south at first, otherwise moderate north-easterly.

The expected UVB sunburn index is moderate.