{
  "id": 16598268,
  "title": "Weather update: Severe thunderstorms hit KZN and Eastern Cape, damaging winds threaten other regions",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/weather-update-severe-thunderstorms-hit-kzn-and-eastern-cape-damaging",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-26T11:35:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IOL",
    "slug": "iol",
    "url": "https://iol.co.za/news/south-africa/2026-10-26-weather-update-severe-thunderstorms-hit-kzn-and-eastern-cape-damaging-winds-threaten-other-regions/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The South African Weather Service has issued a Yellow Level 2 warning for severe thunderstorms over most of KwaZulu-Natal and the extreme northern parts of the Eastern Cape, alongside a Yellow Level 1 warning for damaging winds in parts of the Free State and Northern Cape.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}