[KZN] SA Weather Service issues heavy rain warning

[Gordon_R]

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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING | LEVEL 2

Residents are urged to take immediate precautions as the South African Weather Service has issued a Level 2 Severe Thunderstorm Warning for eThekwini and other parts of KwaZulu-Natal from 20 to 21 September.

Heavy downpours, lightning, damaging winds, hail, localised flooding, and infrastructure damage are possible.

Municipal Disaster Management and Emergency Services teams remain on high alert and ready to respond.

The public is urged to remain vigilant, monitor official weather updates, and take the necessary precautions to protect lives and property.

This weather warning remains subject to updates.

Note that a Level 2 warning is high likelihood, but minor impact (it says so on the grid). If it weren't for the recent damage, this would be a non story.

 

[Binary_Bark]

Parts of KwaZulu-Natal have been warned to brace for severe weather conditions today.

The warning is valid from Tuesday afternoon through the evening.

The South African Weather Service has issued a Yellow Level 2 alert for severe thunderstorms in the southern parts of the province, which may result in heavy downpours, damaging winds, hail and excessive lightning.

Affected areas
Senior forecaster Wiseman Dlamini says areas including eThekwini, Kostad, Richmond, uMzumbe, Harding, uMdoni, Umkhambathini, Umzimkhulu and Ixopo could be affected.

Severe thunderstorm, wind warning issued for KZN

A Yellow Level 2 warning has been issued for severe thunderstorms and damaging winds across parts of KwaZulu-Natal, with flooding and hail possible.

www.ecr.co.za

 

[Binary_Bark]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2107107499958501800

 

[Gordon_R]

Severe thunderstorm, wind warning issued for KZN

A Yellow Level 2 warning has been issued for severe thunderstorms and damaging winds across parts of KwaZulu-Natal, with flooding and hail possible.

www.ecr.co.za

I don't particularly know about the thunderstorms, but a cold-front that passed over Cape Town early this morning (Tues 6th) is likely to move up the coast and bring a sharp change in temperatures later today:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2107107499958501800

LOL. Was just typing my response (above), when your comment popped up.

 

[Gordon_R]

October has been a rather odd month, and yet another series of cold fronts will eventually bring extremely cold conditions to the entire southern half of SA over the next 5 days. Early model runs showed snow over the Drakensberg, but this now seems less likely. This chart shows the predicted daytime temperatures on Mon 19th:

 

[wingnut771]

October has been a rather odd month, and yet another series of cold fronts will eventually bring extremely cold conditions to the entire southern half of SA over the next 5 days. Early model runs showed snow over the Drakensberg, but this now seems less likely. This chart shows the predicted daytime temperatures on Mon 19th:
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Halleluyah!

 

[Rayne]

Welcome because the heat has been crazy this week.

 

[Vis1/0N]

Last year right into November there were plenty days that we were wearing jerseys in the office.

 

[wingnut771]

 

[wingnut771]

Lekker thunderstorm this evening.

 

[Dylan_G]

Lekker thunderstorm this evening.

Yeah, its pretty cool and seems to be going in circles somehow... it stopped in my area but now its back.

 

[Heisenborg]

 

[Spyda]

Lekker thunderstorm this evening.

It was, saw some beautiful lightning arcs, only 5mm of rain in Pinetown. But I see we are for more thunderstorms this afternoon/evening.

 

[wingnut771]

It was, saw some beautiful lightning arcs, only 5mm of rain in Pinetown. But I see we are for more thunderstorms this afternoon/evening.

Yeah not much rain, just a light show for a few hours.

 

[Gordon_R]

It was, saw some beautiful lightning arcs, only 5mm of rain in Pinetown. But I see we are for more thunderstorms this afternoon/evening.

There will definitely be some rain later today in KZN, but it will be much cooler, with strong onshore southerly winds, as a cutoff-low exits to the south east:

 

[HAL 9000]

I lived on the Bluff when I was growing up - our dining room had large panoramic windows facing the ocean, and I used to watch the MASSIVE (MyBB) thunderstorms & spectacular lightning shows out to sea for hours - this was in the days before SA got TV broadcasts...

Representative photos taken by a school classmate (who sadly passed away a while back) - his house overlooked the Brighton Beach tidal pool...

 

[ToxicBunny]

I lived on the Bluff when I was growing up - our dining room had large panoramic windows facing the ocean, and I used to watch the MASSIVE (MyBB) thunderstorms & spectacular lightning shows out to sea for hours - this was in the days before SA got TV broadcasts...

Representative photos taken by a school classmate (who sadly passed away a while back) - his house overlooked the Brighton Beach tidal pool...

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Colour me jealous... those properties on the bluff are nice, its just a pity its such a PITA to get in and out of the bluff.

 

[Dylan_G]

this was in the days before SA got TV broadcasts...

Yeah, I read the thunderstorms were much stronger in the Jurassic Era.

Just joking. Awesome photos!

 

[Spyda]

13mm of rain measured, my garden is happy.