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Live South African Weather Service warnings for the City of Johannesburg — thunderstorms, flooding, wind — with the current wind over Soweto and what to do when a storm hits.
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No weather warnings for the City of Johannesburg
The South African Weather Service has nothing in force here right now.
Soweto's storm season runs October to March: Highveld thunderstorms bring hail, lightning and flash floods along the Klipspruit — worst in low-lying Kliptown, where flooding is a recurring, deadly summer pattern.
No weather warnings for the City of Johannesburg right now.
The South African Weather Service has no warnings in force for the City of Johannesburg, as of Mon, 24 August at 3:49.
A gentle breeze (about 15 km/h, gusts to 30), out of the north.
Strongest gusts forecast over the next 24 hours: about 36 km/h. Wind words follow the Beaufort scale. This is a weather model’s forecast for the hour, not a measurement — exposed ground above town will see more.
When a storm hits
Official warnings, forwarded the moment the national service issues one for the area — headline and all, in its own words. Nothing in between. No account, one-click unsubscribe.
The Klip River and its tributary the Klipspruit drain Soweto through one of Gauteng's largest wetland systems, and summer storms push them over their banks — around 400 households were inundated in Kliptown in 2022, and a teenager drowned there in November 2023. If you live along the Klipspruit, treat a severe-thunderstorm warning as a reason to move valuables up and stay clear of low crossings.
Highveld winters are dry, so weeks with no warnings are normal from May to September. The risks that remain are cold snaps and wind-driven fires, and SAWS warns for those too when they threaten.
Warning data: issued by the South African Weather Service (SAWS), via the WMO Severe Weather Information Centre (severeweather.wmo.int), which republishes SAWS’s official CAP alert feed. Warnings are shown as SAWS issues them, unaltered; this page reads the alerts whose official area covers the City of Johannesburg. Wind forecast: Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0). This page is not an alert service — sign up to the official channels above.