On Thursday, the South African Weather Service predicts cool temperatures and thundershowers in several provinces. The UVB sunburn index is expected to be extreme.
In Gauteng, the weather will be partly cloudy and warm with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers.
The Mpumalanga Lowveld will be hot and partly cloudy, with cool to warm temperatures and isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers, but scattered showers in the southeast.
Limpopo will have partly cloudy and warm conditions, with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers in the east.
The North West province will be partly cloudy and warm.
The Free State province will have partly cloudy and cool to warm conditions with isolated showers and thundershowers in the extreme east.
The Northern Cape will have fine and cool to warm conditions.
Along the coast and adjacent interior, there will be mist in the morning, becoming partly cloudy in the extreme east by the afternoon. The wind along the coast will be strong southerly.
In the Western Cape, the weather will be fine and cool to warm, but partly cloudy along the south coast. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly, but moderate south-westerly along the south coast. The UVB sunburn index is very high.
The western half of the Eastern Cape will have partly cloudy and cool conditions, with moderate to fresh westerly to south-westerly winds along the coast. There will be cloudy weather with isolated showers and thundershowers in the northeast in the morning. The eastern half of the province will be partly cloudy and cool, with moderate to fresh westerly to south-westerly winds along the east coast.
The KwaZulu-Natal interior will have morning fog, but otherwise, the province will be cloudy and cool to warm, with isolated showers and thundershowers and scattered showers in the north. The wind along the coast will be moderate south-westerly, becoming south-easterly in the north by afternoon. The UVB sunburn index is very high.