06 - 07 April 2024 | Vox Weather WEEKEND Forecast

⚠️IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS issued by SA Weather⚠️
🟠Orange Level 6: Wind leading to risk to medium/large vessels dragging anchor and breaking mooring lines is expected between Table Bay and Cape Agulhas from evening through Sunday.
🟠Orange Level 6: Interior Winds leading to some structural damage and interruptions to power, communication and other services, is expected over the City of Cape Town, Overberg and Cape Winelands from Saturday evening through Sunday.
🟡Yellow Level 4: Wind and waves leading to difficulty in navigation at sea and disruptions of small harbours and ports, is expected between Saldanha Bay and Mossel Bay.
🟡Yellow Level 4: Interior Wind resulting in problems for high-sided vehicles on prone routes and damage to settlements, is expected over the Western Cape interior and southern regions of the Namakwa in the Northern Cape from evening through Sunday.
🟡Yellow Level 2: Severe Thunderstorms with the possibility of heavy downpours leading to localised flooding are expected over the eastern parts of both the Free State and North West, the north and eastern parts of the Eastern Cape, Gauteng and western parts of KwaZulu-Natal.
⛈️ADVISORIES: ⛈️
An intense cut-off low pressure system is expected to affect the Western Cape and southern regions of Namakwa (Northern Cape) from Sunday through to Monday. The public and small stock farmers are advised about a black south-easter associated with very cold,wet and windy conditions that can be expected over the southern parts of the Namakwa (Northern Cape) and in places over the northern Cape Winelands and Central Karoo municipalities on Sunday and Monday.
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[@joegeorge7868]

My Apple Weather updates, wrong, Microsoft Weather updates, wrong, you guys are spot on. Thank you ! Incredible Rain forecast. Guys, is this climate change? For South Africa, its looks fantastic. More rain than ever before. Even our dry regions.

[@VisualArtWorx]

That’s why I use WeatherBug…

[@karlerasure]

I said it many times before. Thanks 👍

[@wendyh3891]

Thank you so much Annette. Have a wonderful rest & give Michelle my good wishes to enjoy her little girl 💗 I am hoping we get lots of rain in Lorraine PE

[@voxweather1705]

😂you've got the names swapped! But I'll be sure to give Annette good wishes!

[@wendyh3891]

@@voxweather1705 oops my apologies 🙈

[@Kozibaw]

I come here for updates 🎉

[@ziono6365]

Beautiful weather forecast and quite a storm for Cape Town. Thank you for the amazing forecast😉😃

[@brynlowe2408]

Rain and cool weather in Pretoria. Yes. 😊 . Thank you Vox for the weather forecast.

[@valeriemurray9903]

Thanks for very extensive detailed forcast

[@neelspotgieter6835]

Morning Michelle. Thanks for weather update. Have a blessed day.

[@HenkduPlooy-ym3ed]

Dankie Julle.

[@Hartsock2009]

Yea East Pretoria let it rain baby! Wootage

[@samsonkjoseph6087]

Baie dankie.

[@karintraut8151]

Thanks♥️

[@user-es2oe3co5t]

Thank you very much your report is sport on . Have a lovely rainy weekend. ❤

[@user-es2oe3co5t]

🙏🙏

[@rishirampersad6464]

Thank you for the weather God bless you

[@DownButNotOutYet]

Good morning Michelle, A wonderful forecast, yes lots of rain, which is exactly what is needed. Hopefully people will load photos of some of the storms in their areas. You are looking so good again. I wonder if Augrabies will put on a spectacular show for us. People must take care re the strong winds and excessive rains in their areas. This was a good forecast. Kind regards ❤

[@ericschoeman6613]

This is my go too channel for weather my apps suck

[@johnwagenhauser9835]

Thanks

[@user-eb7xt3ot4x]

Getting strong winds in England this weekend.

[@Rob-wu5nc]

Wow we need rain hier bring it on ..hope baby daughter is warm

[@brynlowe2408]

Keep our baby weather forecaster warm , please.😊

[@GORE11]

Are you insane why warm we need the rain and COLD for a once

[@gbone7581]

@@GORE11 Keep the weather forecaster warm, not the weather forecast!

[@brynlowe2408]

@@GORE11 The new baby needs to be kept warm in the cold weather.

[@Zenda_Nior]

Wind is as mad as snakes in Cape Town atm.

[@kooskoekemoer]

Ek is altyd so bly, as ek vergeet om die weer te kyk dan kry ek 'n recommendation op youtube, dan is my dag gemaak.

[@CitiesForTheFuture2030]

Please explain COLs - our most damaging storms seem to develop from COLs. Same as a subtropical storm? And why aren't these storms given names, like big storms in the UK & EU. And the world is talking about naming big heatwaves etc to draw public attention to their seriousness. Are we discussing naming big storms in SA?

[@Quicksilver87878787]

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[@rico9374]

A cut-off low is essentially a mid-latitude cyclone that has broken off from the upper westerly winds of the jet streams in either hemisphere. The system develops a closed circulation pattern and behaves erratically due to it being broken off. That's why it always seems so difficult to accurately predict. Furthermore, it can remain stationary during a blocking event due to the presence of high pressure systems in the upper atmosphere.

[@CitiesForTheFuture2030]

@@rico9374 Thank you. Only SA seems to call it a COL? Any reason why we don't name severe COLs when they are so unpredicable & potentially very damaging?