By Staff Writer
Published: 18 October 2025
This forecast is for: Sun 19 October 2025
The maps cover: Sun 19 Oct – Tue 21 Oct
Sunday looks to be cold and wet in the central and eastern parts of South Africa, with significant amounts of rainfall in places and snowfall possible in some of the mountains bordering Lesotho.
Rainfall of between 20mm and 40mm in possible in places, possibly resulting in significant impacts as the ground is already saturated. Major travel disruptions are possible.
From Monday it should be partly cloudy and cool to warm conditions over the central and eastern parts of the country, with isolated to scattered showers and thundershowers possible by the afternoon. It…
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