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The South African Weather Services (SAWS) is warning of icy weather conditions with possibility of snow in the middle of the week to affect all provinces except Limpopo province.
According to SAWS, a particularly intense Cut-Off low (COL) system, associated with severe and extreme winter weather, is expected to affect South Africa from this weekend, persisting over the country until at least the middle of this week over the eastern provinces.
SAWS warns that some of the more extreme weather impacts associated with this system include the following:
• Snowfalls over almost every province, with the exception of Limpopo. Some of these snowfalls will be disruptive, affecting traffic flow over mountain passes (for example, the N3 highway at Van Reenen’s pass on Monday, 9 June 2025 and Tuesday, 10 June 2025)
• Strong, damaging surface winds over large parts of the interior provinces from Sunday, leading to an elevated risk of wildfires, especially over the central and eastern interior, ahead of the cold change. These extreme conditions are expected to persist over some of the eastern provinces until Wednesday.
• Strong to near-gale force coastal winds and very rough seas from Friday along the south-west coast, spreading to the south and east coasts during Saturday, and lasting until at least Tuesday along the east coast.
• Heavy rainfall leading to localised flooding and infrastructure damage over parts of the Eastern Cape coast and adjacent interior on Sunday, shifting to southern KwaZulu-Natal on Monday.
• Bitterly cold daytime conditions over many provinces from Sunday, with maximum temperatures unlikely to exceed +10 C. These conditions will be exacerbated by strong, gusty winds.
• There is also a risk of severe thunderstorms; possibly associated with damaging hail and/or damaging winds over some provinces, including North West, Gauteng, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal during Monday and Tuesday
