TUESDAY WEATHER: Widespread rainfall in the interior and a thunderstorm warning for four provinces

By Staff Writer
Published: 13 April 2026 [updated 14 April]

This forecast is for: Tue 14 April 2026
The maps cover: Tue 14 Apr – Tue 14 Apr


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Partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated to widespread showers and thundershowers on Tuesday.

Fog patches can be expected in various regions of the country on Tuesday morning.

SEE ALSO: First snowfall of the year possible for the Western Cape and Northern Cape this weekend.

Warnings from the SA Weather Service for Tuesday:

A. level 2 warning for severe thunderstorms with heavy downpours, lightning, hail, and damaging winds resulting in localised flooding and damage to settlements and infrastructure are expected over KwaZulu-Natal, the escarpment of Mpumalanga, the central and eastern parts of the Free State as well as the extreme southern parts of the North West.

Regional forecasts from the SA Weather Service for Tuesday:

GAUTENG
Cloudy in the south-west, otherwise partly cloudy and cool with scattered showers and thundershowers.

MPUMALANGA
Cloudy at first, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers.

LIMPOPO
Cloudy in the central and eastern parts at fisrt, otherwise partly cloudy and warm with isolated showers, but scattered in the south-west. No rain is expected in the north.

NORTH WEST
Cloudy and cool to warm with scattered showers and thundershowers but isolated over the western parts.

THE FREE STATE
Cloudy and cool to warm with widespread to scattered showers and thundershowers. It will become partly cloudy in places in the late afternoon.

THE NORTHERN CAPE
Cloudy at first with morning fog along the coast, otherwise partly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers in the central and eastern parts. It will be fine in the extreme west. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate south-westerly to westerly becoming north-westerly in the afternoon.

THE WESTERN CAPE
Morning fog over the south-western parts, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with a chance of rain over the south-western parts from late evening. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate westerly to north-westerly but fresh south-westerly along the south coast.

THE WESTERN HALF OF THE EASTERN CAPE
Morning fog in places in the south, otherwise partly cloudy and warm becoming with isolated showers and thundershowers in the north in the evening. The wind along the coast will be light and variable, becoming moderate to fresh south-westerly by evening.

THE EASTERN HALF OF THE EASTERN CAPE
Morning fog in places, otherwise cloudy and cool to warm with showers and thundershowers over the northern and eastern parts. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate north-easterly, becoming north-westerly in the evening.

KWAZULU-NATAL
Morning fog patches over the interior, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with scattered showers and thundershowers in the north and west, otherwise isolated. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate westerly to north-west north of durban in the morning, otherwise moderate to fresh northerly to north-easterly.

Travellers forecasts from the SA Weather Service for Tuesday:

PRETORIA
Partly cloudy and cool with scattered showers and thundershowers.
Minimum/Maximum: 15/23°C

JOHANNESBURG
Partly cloudy and cool with scattered showers and thundershowers.
Minimum/Maximum: 14/20°C

VEREENIGING
Cloudy and cool with scattered showers and thundershowers.
Minimum/Maximum: 14/21°C

MBOMBELA
Cloudy at first, otherwise partly cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers.
Minimum/Maximum: 16/27°C

POLOKWANE
Cloudy at first , otherwise partly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers.
Minimum/Maximum: 16/27°C

MAHIKENG
Cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers.
Minimum/Maximum: 15/26°C

VRYBURG
Cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers.
Minimum/Maximum: 13/25°C

BLOEMFONTEIN
Cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers.
Minimum/Maximum: 13/25°C

KIMBERLEY
Cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers.
Minimum/Maximum: 14/26°C

UPINGTON
Partly cloudy becoming cloudy, with isolated showers and thundershowers.
Minimum/Maximum: 17/29°C

CAPE TOWN
Morning fog, otherwise partly cloudy with a chance of late evening rain.
Wind: Light and variable in the morning, otherwise moderate north-westerly.
Minimum/Maximum: 16/23°C

GEORGE
Partly cloudy.
Wind: Light north-westerly in the morning, otherwise moderate south-westerly.
Minimum/Maximum: 17/29°C

GQEBERHA
Fine.
Wind: Light and variable, becoming moderate to fresh south-westerly by evening.
Minimum/Maximum: 16/32°C

EAST LONDON
Cloudy.
Wind: Light to moderate north-easterly, becoming north-westerly in the evening.
Minimum/Maximum: 17/29°C

DURBAN
Cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers.
Wind: Light westerly to north-westerly until mid-morning, otherwise moderate northerly to north-easterly.
Minimum/Maximum: 20/28°C

RICHARDS BAY
Cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers.
Wind: Light westerly to north-westerly in the morning, otherwise moderate to fresh northerly to north-easterly.
Minimum/Maximum: 22/31°C

PIETERMARITZBURG
Morning fog, otherwise cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers.
Minimum/Maximum: 16/27°C

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