Snow is forecast for several of South Africa’s provinces as temperatures dip below zero degrees Celsius as a cold front hits Mzansi this week. Image: Flickr Wikimedia Commons
Snow expected THIS WEEK in these parts of South Africa
Snow is forecast for several of South Africa’s provinces as temperatures dip below zero degrees Celsius as a cold front hits Mzansi this week.
Snow is forecast for several of South Africa’s provinces as temperatures dip below zero degrees Celsius as a cold front hits Mzansi this week. Image: Flickr Wikimedia Commons
Snow is forecast for a number of South Africa’s province as temperatures plummet below zero degrees Celsius as a cold front hits Mzansi this week.
According to VoxWeather, temperatures as expected to drop significantly from Wednesday, 3 July as a cold front moves over South Africa.
Light snowfall is expected to start late on Wednesday over the high peaks of the Matroosberg mountain range in the Western Cape and over the Lesotho mountains.
Into Thursday, 4 July, light snowfall is forecast to spread to the north-eastern high ground of the Eastern Cape, southern Drakensberg and Lesotho.
Snow on the weekend too
Looking ahead to the weekend, weather models currently show more significant widespread snow possible on Sunday, 7 July over the Cape provinces as a strong front reaches the country.
At the time of publishing, the weather model is picking up that heavy disruptive snow could fall over the mountain peaks in the Western Cape (Matroosberg Nature Reserve, Cederberg and Swartberg Mountain Range), and Northern Cape (Nuweveld and Roggeveld mountains), including the town of Sutherland, spreading to the Great Karoo and the high-lying areas in the Cape provinces (around Calvinia, Loxton, Beaufort West, Molteno, Barkley East and surroundings), southern Drakensberg and Lesotho.
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