{
  "id": 543725,
  "title": "Today's weather: Heavy snow, flooding rain and damaging winds to batter parts of SA",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/todays-weather-heavy-snow-flooding-rain-and-damaging-winds-to-batter",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-11T07:43:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IOL",
    "slug": "iol",
    "url": "https://iol.co.za/mercury/news/2026-08-11-todays-weather-heavy-snow-flooding-rain-and-damaging-winds-to-batter-parts-of-sa2/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A powerful winter weather system is set to sweep across South Africa on Tuesday, bringing disruptive snowfall, widespread rain, damaging winds and bitterly cold temperatures to several provinces, with the Eastern Cape expected to bear the brunt of the severe conditions.",
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  "editors_take": null,
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      {
        "outlet": "IOL",
        "title": "Tuesday weather: Heavy snow, flooding rain and damaging winds to batter parts of SA",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/tuesday-weather-heavy-snow-flooding-rain-and-damaging-winds-to-batter",
        "published": "2026-08-11T03:50:00.000Z"
      }
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  "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."
}