Winter is here as first seasonal snowfall arrives
According to the weather office, KwaZulu-Natal's neighbours Lesotho and the Eastern Cape could be white with snow on Friday.
This will be the first sighting of snow this winter season which is expected to bring biting temperatures over the weekend.
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"We are expecting snowfall over the high-lying areas of the Drakensberg mountains, more over Lesotho, eastern parts of the Eastern Cape Province," said forecaster Dipuo Tawana.
"We are also expecting isolated thundershowers in Eastern Cape, Free State, Mpumalanga, and Limpopo," she adds.
"For the weekend, we expect partly cloudy conditions over most parts of the country, [And] we are expecting light rain in KZN."
Tawana says a cold front is also on the way from the southwestern parts of the country.
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"In most parts of the country, we are expecting cool conditions, but in the south and central we expect temperatures to be cold, just 17 degrees and below. On Sunday the temperatures are still expected to be cold over the southern part of the country," she says.
