The City of Cape Town said it is on high alert after three weather warnings were issued for the City this week.
As winter arrives, the South African Weather Service (Saws) has advised of an intense cold front expected to make landfall on Wednesday, June 25, until Friday, June 27.
The City of Cape Town’s spokesperson for Disaster Risk Management, Sonica Lategan, said their teams are on high alert.
The specific warnings issued by the weather service include:
- Yellow Level 4 Warning for damaging waves from Wednesday evening
- Yellow Level 2 Warning for damaging winds on Wednesday
- Yellow level 2 Warning for disruptive rainfall on Wednesday until Thursday morning
Lategan said the Disaster Risk Management Centre has alerted all relevant City departments and external partners to be on standby for potential impacts from the forecast.
“We ask that the public take heed of the warnings and do as much as possible to safeguard their properties during the forecast period, like waterproofing, clearing gutters, and digging trenches to lead water away from their structures,” Lategan said.
In the event of any life-threatening emergency, please call the City’s Public Emergency Communication Centre on 021 480 7700.
The weather service has also issued a similar alert for the Northern Cape.
“The public and small stock farmers are advised that icy, wet and windy conditions with heavy rainfall, strong interior winds and gale force coastal winds, very rough to high seas and light snowfall on the high ground can be expected,” Saws said.
Other parts of the country can expect fine to partly cloudy and cool temperatures.
“In KwaZulu-Natal, the wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh northerly to north-westerly, becoming southerly to south-westerly from the south, spreading to the north by the evening,” Saws said.
Damaging winds have also been forecast for the Eastern Cape.
