SA Weather Service warns of possible flooding in Gauteng

The South African Weather Service has warned of the possibility of localised flooding from showers and thundershowers in Gauteng on Sunday.

It says there is an 80% chance of rain in the province.

Temperatures are also expected to take a dip.

Forecaster, Venetia Phakula says the weather service has issued a level 2 yellow warning.

“We have also issued an impact based warning. So we have gone with a yellow warning level 2 for severe thunderstorms with high likelihood of minor impact. We expecting localised flooding, road flooding also localised flooding in low lying areas. There’s also a possibility of hail.”

⚠️ YELLOW WARNING ⚠️ for Thunderstorms for Gauteng, SW Limpopo, western and northern Highveld of Mpumalanga and E NW province on Sunday 11 October 2020.

Impacts:
1. Heavy rain leading to localized flooding of susceptible roads and low lying areas.
2. Hail of damaging nature.

— SA Weather Service (@SAWeatherServic) October 10, 2020