{"id":27902,"date":"2026-03-06T12:04:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=27902"},"modified":"2026-03-06T12:04:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:04:49","slug":"thundershowers-expected-in-in-sa-province-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/thundershowers-expected-in-in-sa-province-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Thundershowers expected in in SA province this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Weather Service (SAWS) says residents in Gauteng province should prepare for cloudy conditions with widespread showers and thundershowers this Friday, with an 80% chance of rain across the province.<\/p>\n<p>SAWS Senior Forecaster Tokelo Chiloane says the wet weather is expected to continue into the weekend, although the probability of rainfall will decrease to about 60% on Saturday and Sunday across Gauteng province<\/p>\n<p>\u201c This weather is expected to continue to Saturday as well as Sunday; however, we will only have under 60% chances of showers and thunder showers for the weekend. When looking at temperatures for today, we are looking at a maximum of 20. Johannesburg\u2019s maximum is 21, and Pretoria as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20660,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-27902","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"SAWS Senior Forecaster Tokelo Chiloane says the wet weather is expected to continue into the weekend.","published_date":"","news_description":"SAWS Senior Forecaster Tokelo Chiloane says the wet weather is expected to continue into the weekend.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27903,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27902\/revisions\/27903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=27902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}