16 January 2026 | Vox Weather Forecast

🔴 RED LEVEL 10 WARNING: CONTINUED HEAVY RAINFALL OVER PARTS OF LIMPOPO AND MPUMALANGA 🌧️

Due to the combination of VERY HIGH RAINFALL ALREADY ACCUMULATED over the past several days and the EXPECTATION OF MORE HEAVY RAIN, the risk of WIDESPREAD FLOODING remains CRITICALLY HIGH 🚨💧

⚠️IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS issued by SAWS ⚠️
🔴 Red Level 10: Disruptive Rain with further heavy downpours leading to widespread flooding, resulting in danger to life due to fast flowing streams, displacement of communities, widespread damage to settlements or structures over the northern escarpment and the Lowveld of Mpumalanga as well as the southern Lowveld of Limpopo.

🟠Orange Level 9: Disruptive rainfall resulting in widespread flooding of roads and settlements, widespread mudslides, rockfalls and soil erosion, danger to life due to fast flowing stream, widespread damage to property, building and loss of livelihood and livestock as well as possible widespread displacement of affected communities are expected over the eastern parts of Limpopo (Vhembe and Mopani District Municipalities) and over Mpumalanga Lowveld and escarpment (Ehlanzeni District Municipality)
🟠 Orange Level 6: Disruptive rainfall resulting in flooding of roads and settlements (formal and informal), mudslides rockfalls and soil erosion, danger to life due to fast flowing stream, damage to property, infrastructure, loss of Livelihood and livestock are expected over the central parts of Limpopo (parts of Capricorn and Sekhukhune District Municipalities) and eastern Highveld of Mpumalanga (Emakhazeni, Msukaligwa, Mkhondo and Chief Albert Luthuli local Municipalities).
🟡Yellow Level 4: Disruptive rain with heavy downpours leading to flooding of roads and settlements, displacement of affected communities, major disruption of traffic flow due to major roads being flooded or closed is expected over the north-eastern parts of KwaZulu-Natal.
🟡Yellow Level 2: Disruptive rainfall resulting in localised flooding of susceptible formal/informal settlements or roads, low-lying areas and bridges, localised mudslides, rockfalls and soil erosion are expected in places over the central parts of Mpumalanga and western parts of Limpopo, excluding the extreme south-western parts.
🟡Yellow Level 2: Severe thunderstorms with heavy downpours, damaging winds, large amounts of hail and excessive lighting leading to localised flooding and damage to settlements and infrastructure are expected over the central parts of North West as well as the Free State.

🔥FIRE DANGER WARNINGS: 🔥
Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over parts of the Northern Cape.

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