Saturday’s weather: Severe thunderstorms, strong winds and rough seas
Weather warnings for 5 September 2026 Impact-based warnings The weather service has issued an orange level 5 warning for severe thunderstorms over the central parts of Northern Cape, leading to flooding of susceptible settlements and roads, strong gusty wind and hail causing damages to structures and falling trees and municipal service outages incidents due to excessive lightning activity.
A yellow level 4 warning has been issued for severe thunderstorms in the central and eastern parts of Northern Cape, and the extreme western parts of North West.
The South African Weather Service has warned of severe thunderstorms in the Northern Cape, North West and the Free State, while parts of KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape face strong coastal winds and rough seas.
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