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Forecast · 72 hours
NWU-WRF
Operational WRF-ARW at 9 and 3 km, run daily to 72 hours. Gridded fields and sector impact dashboards.
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Observed · every 10 minutes
Satellite
Meteosat Third Generation and MSG imagery from EUMETSAT: GeoColour with lightning, Convection RGB, water vapour, airmass and instability, with a scrubbable loop.
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Observed · hourly
Weather stations
Hourly observations from the NWU automatic weather station network, with year-to-date records and a soil moisture profile.
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Observed · near-real time
Lightning
Live total-lightning detections over Southern Africa from the volunteer-operated Blitzortung network, independent of the radar.
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Forecast · vertical profiles
Model soundings
Forecast Skew-T / log-p profiles for 34 locations, from the 3 km Highveld nest out to the 9 km outer domain.
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Observed · offline since 10 March 2026
Lekwena Radar
Dual-polarised C-band Doppler radar at Potchefstroom. Reflectivity imagery, an interactive maximum-dBZ map and automatically tracked storm cells.
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GeoColour + Lightning · Southern Africa
The newest MTG-I FCI frame EUMETSAT has published, updated as new ones arrive. Animate it, or switch to nine other products, in the satellite viewer. Imagery © EUMETSAT.