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Hot conditions for parts of SA

Reported by SAnews South African News

The South African Weather Service forecast maximum temperatures of 36–40°C in parts of Namakwa District and the Western Cape interior on Monday, and warned of extremely high fire danger in listed areas of the Northern and Western Cape.

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  • Affected location: Northern Cape and Western Cape, South Africa
clouds in the northern drakensberge moving through a gap between the Sentinel and the Amphitheatre - taken during a photography workshop in South Africa in 2023 by Thomas Fuhrmann, SnowmanStudios - see more pictures on www.snowmanstudios.de
Illustrative image: clouds in the northern drakensberge moving through a gap between the Sentinel and the Amphitheatre - taken during a photography workshop in South Africa in 2023 by Thomas Fuhrmann, SnowmanStudios - see more pictures on www.snowmanstudios.de — Thomas Fuhrmann/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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