SUNDAY WEATHER: Thunderstorm warnings for seven provinces including a LEVEL 4

By Staff Writer
Published: 21 March 2026

This forecast is for: Sun 22 March 2026
The maps cover: Sun 22 Mar – Sun 22 Mar


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Fog can be expected in places on Sunday.

Warnings from the SA Weather Service for Sunday:

A. level 2 warning for severe thunderstorms associated with heavy downpours resulting in localised flooding of low-lying bridges and roads, and damage to infrastructure and settlements due to strong damaging winds over southern Gauteng, the Highveld and escarpment of Mpumalanga, Lowveld of Limpopo, western parts of KwaZulu-Natal, the eastern and southern parts of the Free State, in places over the south-eastern and central parts of the Northern Cape and the eastern parts of the North West.

Regional forecasts from the SA Weather Service for Sunday:

GAUTENG
Cloudy and cool to warm with scattered showers and thundershowers.

MPUMALANGA
Cloudy in the morning with fog along the escarpment, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers but scattered over the Highveld.

LIMPOPO
Cloudy in the morning, otherwise warm but hot in the Lowveld with isolated showers and thundershowers but scattered over the Western Bushveld.

NORTH-WEST
Partly cloudy in the west, otherwise cloudy and cool to warm, with scattered showers and thundershowers.

THE FREE STATE
Cloudy and cool to warm, with scattered showers and thundershowers.

THE NORTHERN CAPE
Misty in the morning over the northern coast becoming fine in the afternoon, otherwise partly cloudy and warm to hot with afternoon isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers in the east and central. The wind along the coast will be fresh to strong southerly.

THE WESTERN CAPE
Partly cloudy and cool to warm with chances of rain along the south coast and adjacent interior in the evening, otherwise, fine and cool to warm but hot in places over the interior. Isolated showers and thundershowers can be expected over the north-eastern interior. The wind along the coast will be moderate southerly but fresh to strong along the west coast.

THE WESTERN HALF OF THE EASTERN CAPE
Cloudy with morning fog in places, otherwise partly cloudy and warm with isolated thunderstorms in the north-east. The wind along the coast will be light to moderate south-westerly.

THE EASTERN HALF OF THE EASTERN CAPE
Cloudy with morning fog in places, otherwise partly cloudy and warm with isolated thunderstorms but scattered in the north where it will be cloudy. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh north-easterly.

KWAZULU-NATAL
Cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers but scattered in the west. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly to south-easterly north of Port Shepstone in the morning, otherwise light to moderate easterly to north-easterly spreading northwards in the afternoon.

Travellers forecasts from the SA Weather Service for Sunday:

PRETORIA
Cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers.
Minimum/Maximum: 19/25°C

JOHANNESBURG
Cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers.
Minimum/Maximum: 17/24°C

VEREENIGING
Cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers.
Minimum/Maximum: 17/24°C

MBOMBELA
Cloudy in the morning with fog patches, otherwise partly cloudy widespread showers and thundershowers.
Minimum/Maximum: 19/24°C

POLOKWANE
Cloudy in the morning, otherwise partly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers.
Minimum/Maximum: 18/25°C

MAHIKENG
Partly cloudy becoming cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers.
Minimum/Maximum: 18/22°C

VRYBURG
Partly cloudy becoming cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers.
Minimum/Maximum: 16/26°C

BLOEMFONTEIN
Partly cloudy becoming cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers.
Minimum/Maximum: 16/27°C

KIMBERLEY
Partly cloudy becoming cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers.
Minimum/Maximum: 16/31°C

UPINGTON
Partly cloudy becoming cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers.
Minimum/Maximum: 19/35°C

CAPE TOWN
Fine.
Wind: Light to moderate south-easterly to southerly becoming strong in the afternoon.
Minimum/Maximum: 17/25°C

GEORGE
Partly cloudy with chances of rain in the evening
Wind: Light and variable becoming southerly to south-easterly from the afternoon.
Minimum/Maximum: 15/24°C

GQEBERHA
Fog in the morning, otherwise fine.
Wind: Light and variable, becoming moderate south-westerly in the afternoon.
Minimum/Maximum: 16/26°C

EAST LONDON
Partly cloudy with isolated showers in the evening.
Wind: Moderate to fresh north-easterly.
Minimum/Maximum: 18/27°C

DURBAN
Cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers.
Wind: Moderate to fresh southerly to south-westerly, becoming easterly to north-easterly in the afternoon.
Minimum/Maximum: 22/27°C

RICHARDS BAY
Cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers.
Wind: Moderate to fresh southerly to south-westerly, becoming easterly to north-easterly in the afternoon.
Minimum/Maximum: 22/31°C

PIETERMARITZBURG
Morning fog, otherwise cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers.
Minimum/Maximum: 15/29°C

This forecast is usually updated a few times per day.



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