Cold snap to hit SA, with snowfall predicted for some provinces

JOHANNESBURG - Cold and wet conditions will be felt across most parts of the country from Monday into Tuesday, with snowfall predicted for some provinces.  

Parts of the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Kwazulu-Natal will experience snow as a cold front shifts from the Western Cape into other parts of the country.  

Forecaster Lehlohonolo Thobela said that the South African Weather Service had issued a level five weather warning for parts of the Western Cape.  
  
"We're expecting disruptive snow over the northern areas of the Western Cape province, expecting this snow to spread into the mountainous areas of the Eastern Cape province into KwaZulu-Natal, especially the extreme south areas of KwaZulu-Natal, just south of Mooi River into the areas that move on to the Lesotho border," Thobela said.

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Thobela said the widespread showers would persist into the week as temperatures were expected to plummet.

"We're expecting a drop in temperatures to still remain over the eastern parts of the Eastern Cape province. Covering the high lying areas as well as the high-lying ground of the Eastern Cape into the north eastern parts of the Western Cape province. We're expecting scattered to widespread showers of rain over KwaZulu-Natal with isolated showers and thundershowers expected in Mpumalanga as well as Limpopo, said Thobela.