Tuesday 13 January 2015

#SAWeather and #Disaster #Observations South Africa : 13 January 2015 04h00 SAST - MSBWX

SAWS SEVERE WEATHER ALERTS: 
 
WARNINGS: -----Nil 

WATCHES: Severe thunderstorms are expected over the Eastern Cape Drakensberg area, as well as the south-western parts of KwaZulu-Natal from the afternoon.  

SPECIAL WEATHER ADVISORIES: 1. Hot and humid weather will result in extremely uncomfortable conditions over the north-eastern parts of KwaZulu-Natal. 2. Hot and dry weather will result in extremely uncomfortable conditions over the northern interior of the West Coast District of the Western Cape.  

MSBWX National Severe Weather Observations:  Very hot, humid and dry weather conditions were experienced over large parts of South Africa yesterday. Temperature reports of between 25 - 44 Deg/C were received by SAWXREP. (Image: Southern Cape Area - Weather Underground Weather Stations)



MSBWX General Weather Observations:  Cool, warm to very hot conditions expected today over parts of SA. Thunderstorms and rain showers can be expected in parts of  Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, North West, Free State, Northern Cape, Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Kwazulu Natal.  

MSBWX National Disaster Observations:  Several veld fires were again burning in parts of the Western Cape yesterday.  Fire fighting services were quickly on scene to contained and extinguish the fires.


Images:  Twitter via VWS Wildfires

NSRI National Warnings:------ Nil

- MSBWX + SAWXREP + SAWS