Light rain forecast for Garden Route and Karoo, with warnings of heavy rain in other regions

GARDEN ROUTE | KAROO NEWS - In the latest weather forecast from the South African Weather Service, severe weather alerts have been given for disruptive rainfall over Gauteng, North West & the north eastern parts of Free State.

Impact based warnings:

Orange Level 5 Warning: Disruptive Rainfall resulting in flooding of informal settlements, low-lying areas and bridges as well as dirt roads is expected over the western parts of the North West as well as the central parts of the Free State.
Yellow Level 4 Warning: Disruptive Rainfall resulting in flooding of informal settlements, low-lying areas and bridges as well as dirt roads is expected over the north-eastern parts of the North West as well as the northern parts of Gauteng.
Yellow Level 2 Warning: Disruptive Rainfall resulting in Localized flooding of informal settlements, low-lying areas and bridges as well as dirt roads, is expected over the south-eastern parts of the North West, southern parts of Gauteng as well as the eastern parts of Mpumalanga and Free State.
Yellow Level 2 Warning: Severe Thunderstorm resulting in localised damage to infrastructure, settlements(informal), property, vehicles, livelihood and livestock as well as Localised flooding of susceptible roads, low-lying areas and bridges over the eastern parts of Eastern Cape.
Yellow Level 1 Warning: Damaging winds resulting in difficulty navigating seas between Lamberts Bay and Cape Agulhas.

Fire danger warnings

Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the northern parts of the Western Cape and the extreme western parts of the Northern Cape.

Advisories:

Isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers over the central and eastern parts of South Africa, but widespread in the extreme north-eastern and central parts, with the associated severe weather alerts.