Warmer weather set for next few days but cold snap coming - SA Weather Service
There’s some respite on the horizon from the extreme weather that gripped parts of the country in recent days.
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JOHANNESBURG - There’s some respite on the horizon from the extreme weather that gripped parts of the country in recent days.
A spring cut-off low brought with it cold, wet and windy conditions to various parts of the country and even heavy snowfall in KwaZulu-Natal and the Free State at the weekend.
But the mercury’s since started to rise again and the South African Weather Service’s Lehlohonolo Thobela said that they’re expecting this to continue over the next few days.
"If you get to KZN, some maximum temperatures expected to reach about 30 degrees over the central parts over tomorrow being the 25th, 26th we see hot conditions over the northern parts, even reaching areas around Ulundi with the maximum reaching about 34 degrees. Quite fine conditions over most parts of the country just isolated showers and thundershowers expected," said Thobela.
Another cold snap is expected to hit certain areas towards the end of the week, though.
Thobela added: "The cold days will start on the 29th over the Western Cape, where we’re expecting cold temperatures which will spread into the Eastern Cape by the 30th, with just 10 to 14 degrees Celsius maximum being over most parts of the high-lying areas of the Eastern Cape as well as the southwestern areas of KZN.
"Some light snow that might be expected over the high-lying grounds of the Lesotho mountains, Drakensberg, as well as the extreme south-western parts just south of Mooi River in KZN between the 30th as well as the 1st."