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The South Africa Weather Service
The South African Weather Service (SAWS) is the meteorological service under the South African Government’s Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism. SAWS is a member of the World Meteorological Organization.
https://www.weathersa.co.za/?city=Vaalwater
Windy
Windy is a Czech company providing interactive weather forecasting services worldwide. The portal was founded by Ivo Lukačovič in November 2014. Windy is available on Windows, Apple and Android. It is very popular with sailors and for water sport enthusiasts. Here is a link for Boschhoek marked at the Clubhouse:
https://www.windy.com/-24.565/28.263?thunder,-24.601,28.263,12,m:cYeagWh
As default, I selected lightning. The map indicates the amount of lightning strikes in one square km in one full day. The map can be used anywhere on the globe and offers an option to find your location or search for a location. For help on how to use Windy, you can go here: https://windy.app/guide
YR
YR is a worldwide joint service by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.
NASA Global Fire Map and Data
NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) provides near real-time active fire data from MODIS and VIIRS instruments. Here is a link for Boschhoek for the past 24 hours.
https://firms2.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@28.26,-24.55,14z
The South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) provides a higher resolution viewer for the same data https://viewer.afis.co.za/map/
Blitzortnung
A real-time, community based lightning detection and lightning location network with live lightning maps on www.blitzortung.org and www.lightningmaps.org.
Fire Danger Index (FDI)
The South African Weather Service provides daily index values for the whole country in a map as well as a forecast for the next two days.
https://www.weathersa.co.za/home/fireindex
Forestry / Fevertree Media in cooperation with Vital Fire and Working on Fire publishes daily DFI values for regions in each province. https://www.forestry.co.za/fire-danger-index/
The South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) provides an Advanced Fire Information System (AFIS) viewer that overlays Windy, FDI and FIRMS data on the same map https://viewer.afis.co.za/windy/
Modimolle Fire Protection Agency (FPA)
Membership to the Modimolle Fire Protection Agency (FPA) is available to Boschhoek Owners at R210 per year which includes services of a fire response team.