The weather service in South Africa has warned residents of Johannesburg of a potential road closures and dangerously cold temperatures.
This is as a result of a snowfall witnessed on Monday morning, as the city and other high-lying parts of South Africa were hit by a cold front, morphing into a weather system known as a “cut-off low.
As the city and other high-lying parts of South Africa were hit by a cold front, Johannesburg’s residents received it as a welcome novelty.
With the snowfall reported across southern parts of Gauteng and expected to continue falling throughout the day, as well as in some areas of the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, the South African Weather Service warned that icy temperatures posed a risk to street dwellers in a country where poverty remains widespread.
Such weather is not completely unheard of in Johannesburg. The last time snowfall was seen in Johannesburg was in 2012 and 1996.
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