Severe thunderstorms with damaging winds, hail, excessive lightning, and heavy rain is expected in at least four provinces.
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The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has warned of severe thunderstorms with damaging winds, hail, excessive lightning, and heavy rain in parts of the North West, Gauteng, Northern Cape and Limpopo.
Damaging waves are expected in parts of the Eastern Cape, Northern Cape and Western Cape.
Impact-based warnings
Yellow level 4 warning for severe thunderstorms leading to strong, damaging winds, hail, excessive lightning and possible heavy downpours leading to flooding and damage to susceptible formal/informal settlements and infrastructure is expected in the North West.
Yellow level 2 warning for severe thunderstorms leading to localised flooding of susceptible roads, low-lying areas and bridges, as well as localised damage to infrastructure and informal settlements are expected in Gauteng, the eastern parts of the Northern Cape and in Limpopo, except in the south-eastern parts.
Yellow level 2 warning for damaging winds and waves leading to disruption of ports/small harbours activities for a short period of time, and difficulty in navigation at sea are expected between Alexander Bay in the Northern Cape and Plettenberg Bay in the Western Cape in the morning.
Yellow level 1 warning for damaging waves leading to localised disruption of port/small harbour activities for a short period of time, and difficulty in navigation at sea, as well as disruption to beachfront activities are expected between Oyster Bay and Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape in the morning.
Weather forecast for today and tomorrow, 22-23 April 2026:
Partly cloudy and warm in places in the west, otherwise cloudy and cold to cool with 30-60% showers and thundershowers but 80% in the north and east coast (today)⚠️ Severe thunderstorms, damaging winds and waves#saws pic.twitter.com/nI6gotm6RW— SA Weather Service (@SAWeatherServic) April 22, 2026
In the SAWS’s colour-coded weather warning system, yellow indicates a moderate risk of impact that requires caution and awareness, while orange indicates that a higher-risk impact is expected, requiring increased attention and preparation.
SAWS uses the numbers to indicate the likelihood of weather-based impacts occurring. Levels 2 and 6 are high, and level 4 is low.
The weather in your province
Gauteng: Cloudy and cool with scattered showers and thundershowers, but widespread in the north.
Pretoria: 15 — 18°C
Johannesburg: 12 — 16°C
Vereeniging: 12 — 15°C
Mpumalanga: Morning fog patches along the escarpment, otherwise cloudy and cold to cool with scattered showers and thundershowers.
Mbombela: 14 — 17°C
Ermelo: 8 — 12°C
Emalahleni: 12 — 15°C
Standerton: 9 — 13°C
Skukuza: 16 — 19°C
Limpopo: Morning fog patches along the escarpment, otherwise cloudy and cold to cool with scattered showers and thundershowers, but widespread in the western parts.
Polokwane: 14 — 17°C
Phalaborwa: 17 — 19°C
Tzaneen: 14 — 17°C
Musina: 16 — 20°C
Lephalale: 16 — 20°C
Mokopane: 15 — 19°C
North West: Cloudy, windy and cool to cold with widespread showers and thundershowers.
Klerksdorp: 16 — 17°C
Potchefstroom: 15 — 17°C
Mahikeng: 16 — 18°C
Rustenburg: 17 — 18°C
Vryburg: 13 — 21°C
Free State: Cold in the east, otherwise cloudy, windy and cool with isolated showers and thundershowers, but scattered in the north.
Bloemfontein: 12 — 20°C
Welkom: 11 — 19°C
Bethlehem: 11 — 13°C
Northern Cape: Fine in the west, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers, but scattered in the north-east where it will be cloudy.
The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong easterly to south-easterly.
Upington: 10 — 28°C
Kimberley: 10 — 22°C
De Aar: 5 — 20°C
Alexander Bay: 13 — 29°C
Springbok: 11 — 25°C
Calvinia: 8 — 23°C
Sutherland: 3 — 19°C
Western Cape: Partly cloudy along the south-coast and north-eastern parts in the morning, otherwise fine and cool to warm.
The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong easterly to north-easterly along the south and south-west coast, otherwise moderate to fresh south-easterly.
Cape Town: 12 — 23°C
Vredendal: 12 — 27°C
Riversdale: 8 — 22°C
George: 9 — 20°C
Worcester: 9 — 23°C
Beaufort West: 8 — 21°C
Oudtshoorn: 5 — 23°C
Western half of the Eastern Cape: Partly cloudy in the morning, otherwise fine and cool.
The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong north-easterly.
Eastern half of the Eastern Cape: Cloudy with light rain along Wild Coast, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to cold with isolated showers and thundershowers in the north and extreme east.
The wind along the coast will be moderate easterly in the morning, becoming fresh to strong north-easterly from late morning.
Gqeberha: 11 — 21°C
Makhanda: 9 — 20°C
Cradock: 3 — 22°C
Graaff-Reinet: 4 — 23°C
East London: 12 — 20°C
Port St Johns: 13 — 20°C
Mthatha: 5 — 18°C
Komani: 2 — 18°C
Qonce: 8 — 18°C
KwaZulu-Natal: Cloudy and cold to cool with isolated showers and rain, but isolated in the south-west.
The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly to south-easterly, becoming light to moderate northerly to north-westerly south of Durban from late afternoon.
Durban: 17 — 20°C
Richard’s Bay: 16 — 21°C
Pietermaritzburg: 9 — 15°C
Ladysmith: 9 — 15°C
*This weather report was written with the support of Toqan AI.
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