{"id":8314,"date":"2026-01-07T01:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T01:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/8314\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T01:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T01:30:14","slug":"south-africa-heavy-storms-expected-in-parts-of-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/8314\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Heavy Storms Expected in Parts of South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A yellow level 4 warning is in place for Limpopo, Mpumalanga, parts of KwaZulu-Natal, Free State and North West.   Heavy rain, strong winds, flooding and some damage to buildings and roads are possible on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Severe thunderstorms are expected to hit several parts of South Africa on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The South African Weather Service has issued a yellow level 4 warning for Limpopo, Mpumalanga, the eastern Free State, south western North West and parts of KwaZulu-Natal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Keep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The weather service warns that these storms could bring heavy rain, strong winds and local flooding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">A yellow level 2 warning has been issued for nearby areas that could also see severe storms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The areas expected to be hit hardest include central and eastern Limpopo, the Highveld and Lowveld of Mpumalanga, the Midlands and western parts of KwaZulu-Natal, eastern Free State and south western North West.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">In the Northern Cape, extremely high fire danger conditions are expected in the Kai Garib Local Municipality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Gauteng is expected to be cloudy in the morning, becoming partly cloudy with scattered showers and storms later in the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Mpumalanga and Limpopo will be cloudy and cool to warm, with widespread rain and thunderstorms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The Free State and North West may see morning fog in the east, followed by warm to hot weather with scattered showers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The Northern Cape will be mostly hot and dry, with isolated storms in the east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The Western Cape will be warm to very hot inland, with cloudy conditions along the south coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">In the Eastern Cape, the west will be partly cloudy, while the east could see scattered storms along the Drakensberg and Wild Coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">KwaZulu-Natal will have morning fog inland, followed by cool to warm, cloudy weather with scattered showers and storms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A yellow level 4 warning is in place for Limpopo, Mpumalanga, parts of KwaZulu-Natal, Free State and North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[63,83,2130,265,262,3277,96,261,131,267,264,263,266],"class_list":{"0":"post-8314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-climate","11":"tag-current-events","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-environment","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-south-africa","17":"tag-southern-africa","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-trade","20":"tag-travel"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}