Chilly start to the week as another cold front snakes through parts of SA
It’s going to be a chilly start to the week for those in the Eastern Cape as an intense cold front is expected to blow into the country this week.
The South African Weather Service (Saws) is predicting icy temperatures across the province, coupled with gale-force winds reaching up to 70km/hour along the coast between Plettenberg Bay and East London.
The forecaster further warned of very rough to high seas with wave heights reaching up to eight metres offshore. For this, Saws has issued a Yellow Level 1 warning.
A Yellow Level 1 warning for damaging winds has also been issued for areas between Plett and Port Alfred on Monday.
Saws has also warned of an intense cold front expected to affect the provinces of the Western Cape and Northern Cape from Wednesday until Friday.
“The public and small stock farmers are advised that icy, wet and windy conditions with heavy rainfall, strong interior winds and gale force coastal winds, very rough to high seas and light snowfall on the high ground can be expected,” Saws said.
Other parts of the country can expect fine to partly cloudy and cool temperatures.
“In KwaZulu-Natal, the wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh northerly to north-westerly, becoming southerly to south-westerly from the south, spreading to the north by the evening,” Saws said.
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