{
  "id": 5487021,
  "title": "Friday weather: Severe thunderstorms, flooding and damaging winds set to lash large parts of SA",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/friday-weather-severe-thunderstorms-flooding-and-damaging-winds-set",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-04T03:45:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IOL",
    "slug": "iol",
    "url": "https://iol.co.za/news/weather/2026-09-04-friday-weather-severe-thunderstorms-flooding-and-damaging-winds-set-to-lash-large-parts-of-sa/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Friday will bring a cold, wet and stormy day to much of South Africa, with widespread showers, thunderstorms and several severe weather warnings in place.",
  "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."
}