FRIDAY WEATHER: Chilly overnight in places with isolated thunderstorms and scattered showers in the south

By Staff Writer
Published: 1 October 2026

This forecast is for: Fri 02 October 2026
The maps cover: Fri 02 Oct – Sun 04 Oct


From Saturday it should be partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers but scattered to widespread in places.

Warnings from the SA Weather Service:

Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the Ubuntu local municipality of the Northern Cape.

Regional forecasts from the SA Weather Service:

GAUTENG
Morning fog patches in the south-west, otherwise partly cloudy and cool.

MPUMALANGA
Partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and rain in in the Lowveld. There will be morning fog patches in places.

LIMPOPO
Morning fog patches in the central parts, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers in the Lowveld. It will become cloudy in the south-western Bushveld.

NORTH WEST
Cloudy and cool.

THE FREE STATE
Partly cloudy and cool.

THE NORTHERN CAPE
Partly cloudy, windy and cool to warm, with isolated showers and thundershowers over the central parts where it will be cloudy. The wind along the coast will be fresh south-westerly.

THE WESTERN CAPE
Morning fog patches in the south-west, otherwise cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers, except in the north-west where it will be partly cloudy. Scattered showers and rain are expected in the south-east. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh south-westerly.

THE WESTERN HALF OF THE EASTERN CAPE
Cloudy in places along the coast, otherwise fine and warm, becoming partly cloudy in places over interior with isolated showers and rain, but scattered west of Port Elizabeth. Cloudy and warm with isolated showers and rain, but scattered along the coast west of Gqeberha. It will be partly cloudy in the north. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh south-westerly.

THE EASTERN HALF OF THE EASTERN CAPE
Cloudy in the south-west, otherwise partly cloudy and warm, but cool in places in the north. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh south-westerly.

KWAZULU-NATAL
Morning fog patches over the interior, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated morning showers and rain in the north-east. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh easterly to north-easterly but strong in places south of Richards Bay.

Travellers forecasts from the SA Weather Service:

PRETORIA
Partly cloudy.
Minimum/Maximum: 07/22°C

JOHANNESBURG
Partly cloudy.
Minimum/Maximum: 04/21°C

VEREENIGING
Partly cloudy.
Minimum/Maximum: 06/20°C

MBOMBELA
Moring fog patches, otherwise partly cloudy.
Minimum/Maximum: 09/21°C

POLOKWANE
Morning fog patches, otherwise partly cloudy.
Minimum/Maximum: 09/20°C

MAHIKENG
Cloudy.
Minimum/Maximum: 10/22°C

VRYBURG
Cloudy.
Minimum/Maximum: 10/24°C

BLOEMFONTEIN
Fine, becoming partly cloudy.
Minimum/Maximum: 09/23°C

KIMBERLEY
Fine, becoming partly cloudy and windy.
Minimum/Maximum: 12/24°C

UPINGTON
Cloudy and windy with isolated showers and thundershowers.
Minimum/Maximum: 18/29°C

CAPE TOWN
Cloudy with isolated showers and rain in the morning.
Wind: Moderate to fresh south-westerly.
Minimum/Maximum: 14/19°C

GEORGE
Cloudy with isolated showers and rain in the evening.
Wind: Moderate to fresh south-westerly.
Minimum/Maximum: 14/19°C

GQEBERHA
Cloudy with isolated showers and rain from late afternoon.
Wind: Moderate to fresh south-westerly.
Minimum/Maximum: 14/23°C

KuGOMPO CITY
Partly cloudy.
Wind: Moderate to fresh south-westerly.
Minimum/Maximum: 16/25°C

DURBAN
Partly cloudy.
Wind: Light
to moderate northerly to north-easterly, becoming fresh to strong in the afternoon.
Minimum/Maximum: 15/26°C

RICHARDS BAY
Partly cloudy.
Wind: Light to moderate easterly to north-easterly.
Minimum/Maximum: 14/27°C

PIETERMARITZBURG
Morning fog patches, otherwise partly cloudy.
Minimum/Maximum: 08/27°C

This forecast is usually updated a few times per day.



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