Freezing temperatures expected in these provinces

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A cold front is expected to make a landfall by Wednesday morning, 18 June, resulting in very cold temperatures in parts of the Western and Northern Cape.

This is according to an advisory issued by the South African Weather Service (SAWS) on Monday, 16 June.

The advisory comes just days after another cold front resulted in adverse weather conditions that wreaked havoc in the Eastern Cape, killing 88 people. The weather service had forecast heavy rainfall leading to localised flooding and infrastructure damage in parts of the Eastern Cape, as well as disruptive snow which affected traffic flow over mountain passes and led to some road closures.

ANOTHER COLD FRONT EXPECTED THIS WEEK

The weather service said a cold front is expected to slip south of the country by Wednesday morning, introducing cold to very cold daytime temperatures of 10 degrees Celsius and below in places over the interior of the Western Cape and the Namakwa district in the Northern Cape.

“As another cold front moves south of the country by Thursday evening, the very cold daytime temperatures are expected to persist through Saturday,” SAWS said.

WARNINGS ISSUED FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND WAVES

Meanwhile, the weather service has issued a yellow level 2 warning for damaging waves in the above-mentioned provinces.

“Westerly to south-westerly swells with wave heights reach 4 – 5m but 5.5m on Wednesday are expected along the coast between Saldanha Bay to Plettenberg Bay from Tuesday evening until Thursday evening,” SAWS said.

In addition, a yellow level 1 warning for damaging winds has also been issued.

SAWS said the expected cold front will result in north-westerly to westerly damaging winds of 35 to 55km/h gusting 60 to 75km/h between Cape Point to Plettenberg Bay on Tuesday evening into Wednesday afternoon.