Afternoon storm alert for Joburg

02 January 2020 - 17:31
By TimesLIVE
Johannesburg can expect hail in the late afternoon.
Image: 123RF/fujisl Johannesburg can expect hail in the late afternoon.

Johannesburg residents were warned to expect possible hail, thunderstorms and downpours in parts of the city late on Thursday afternoon.

The SA Weather Service issued a warning, saying that large amounts of small hail had been observed over the western parts of the city, including Randburg and Sandton.

The inclement weather was moving northwards.

In a separate warning, the service advised that severe thunderstorms had been observed over the northern parts of the Amajuba district in KwaZulu-Natal with large hail, damaging winds and heavy downpours moving into the south-eastern parts of Mpumalanga.