Overview
- SAWS expanded its Yellow Level 2 severe thunderstorm warning to most of KwaZulu‑Natal on Monday, excluding the south coast, signaling higher odds of heavy downpours and damaging gusts.
- Separate Yellow Level 2 warnings cover damaging interior winds in the eastern Free State and parts of KZN and damaging coastal winds and waves along the KZN coast with impacts expected into Tuesday morning.
- Extremely high fire danger has been forecast for large parts of the central interior and for areas of Mpumalanga, the Eastern Cape, Gauteng and Limpopo, while a heatwave is persisting on the Mpumalanga Highveld and Lowveld.
- Foreseen impacts include localised flooding, damage to infrastructure and settlements, disruption to beachfront activities and small harbours, and danger to high‑sided vehicles on exposed roads.
- SAWS uses the Yellow Level 2 code to indicate hazards likely to produce impacts, so residents should secure loose items, avoid exposed routes, follow local advisories and prepare for conditions to persist into Tuesday morning.