A major cold front is expected to bring bitterly cold and wet weather, with strong to gale-force north-westerly winds of 60-74km/h and gusts up to 100km/h, to the Western Cape on Thursday afternoon.
The SA Weather Service said: "A cold weekend is coming up for most South Africans. A significant amount of snowfall, even disruptive in parts, looks very likely from Thursday night or the early hours of Friday morning for the Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and even in Lesotho."
The front is expected to produce significant rainfall over the western areas of the Western Cape as it makes landfall, with projected rainfall accumulation of 15 to 30mm, the City of Cape Town's Disaster Risk Management Centre said in a statement on Wednesday. The bulk of the rain will fall during the evening through the night, resulting in rainfall of 45 to 50mm in the south-western mountainous areas of the province.
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