More rainy days ahead, say forecasters

Scattered to widespread thundershowers expected

01 November 2022 - 15:10
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The weather service says wet weather will persist in the days ahead. Stock photo.
The weather service says wet weather will persist in the days ahead. Stock photo.
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The South African Weather Service says wet weather is expected to persist in parts of the country.

Forecasters said this trend will continue for the rest of the week, as a cut-off low-pressure system dominates the central and eastern parts of the country. 

“This will result in scattered to widespread thundershowers from Tuesday until Saturday. Associated with this large-scale weather system is a possibility of flooding, especially over the central interior, on Tuesday and Wednesday,” the weather bureau said.

The risk of flooding will gradually progress eastward during the week and will affect KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and Mpumalanga by Friday.

This weather system is expected to exit the country in the northeast late on Saturday.

The service will continue to monitor the weather system and said updates to forecasts and severe warnings would be made regularly.

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