Wednesday's weather: Early fog in some areas, with rain expected in northern parts of the country

Extreme high fire danger conditions are expected over the central parts and the Ubuntu Local Municipality of the Northern Cape.

The weather in your region

Gauteng will have morning fog patches in the east. Otherwise, it will be partly cloudy and cool to warm.

The expected UVB sunburn index is high.

Cloudy conditions are expected in Mpumalanga's east at first, otherwise partly cloudy and cool temperatures are forecast.

Limpopo will be cloudy, becoming partly cloudy and cool to warm, with isolated showers and thundershowers in the western Bushveld.

Partly cloudy and warm conditions are expected in the North West, with isolated early morning showers and thundershowers.

The Free State can expect fine to partly cloudy conditions and cool to warm temperatures.

Fine to partly cloudy conditions and warm to hot temperatures are forecast for the Northern Cape.

The wind along the coast will be a moderate to fresh west to south-westerly from later in the morning, while a south to south-easterly is expected from late afternoon.

The Western Cape will have fog in the western parts until the afternoon, but it will be cloudy to partly cloudy over the west and the southern parts.

Otherwise, fine and cold to cool temperatures are expected.

The wind along the coast will be light and variable along the south-west, spreading to the south from the evening, but a moderate to fresh south to south-easterly is forecast in the west.

Otherwise, a moderate to fresh north-westerly is expected.

The expected UVB sunburn index is moderate.

Cloudy conditions are forecast along the coast and adjacent interior of the western half of the Eastern Cape in the morning.

Otherwise, fine and warm but cool conditions are expected along the coast.

The wind along the coast will be a light to moderate south-westerly.

The eastern half of the province will be fine and warm but cool along the coast.

The wind along the coast will be a moderate to fresh south-westerly.

KwaZulu-Natal can expect partly cloudy conditions with morning fog over the northern interior. Otherwise, it will be  fine and warm.

The wind along the coast will be a moderate to fresh northerly to north-easterly, becoming a moderate south-westerly from the south by late morning, spreading to Richards Bay by evening.

The expected UVB sunburn index is very high.