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Weather in Ward 3, Senqu
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 27.5 °C, 18 mm of rain; a normal November has 118 mm. Coldest night 9.5 °C on 3 November 2026.
Modelled estimates from a weather reanalysis, averaged over the whole place: not readings from a weather station, and not a forecast. Weather here is averaged over a 9 km grid; this ward overlaps 4 grid cells, each weighted by the ward’s area in it, and its neighbours draw on some of the same cells.
November so far, day by day
| Nov | High °C | Low °C | Rain mm |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22.4 | 13.6 | 3.6 |
| 2 | 23.7 | 10.1 | 0.3 |
| 3 | 25.7 | 9.5 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 26.1 | 11.4 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 27.5 | 10.4 | 13.7 |
Highs and lows are for the South African day; rain is for the day to 02:00 the next morning (the weather model’s day ends at midnight UTC). The weather model runs about five days behind the weather, so the newest day here is usually five to twelve days ago. Only whole days are shown.
The last twelve months against normal
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November | 127 mm, normal 118 mm |
| December | 187 mm, normal 140 mm |
| January | 72 mm, normal 141 mm |
| February | 289 mm, normal 122 mm |
| March | 136 mm, normal 122 mm |
| April | 167 mm, normal 83 mm |
| May | 113 mm, normal 38 mm |
| June | 33 mm, normal 26 mm |
| July | 43 mm, normal 21 mm |
| August | 19 mm, normal 33 mm |
| September | 156 mm, normal 32 mm |
| October | 42 mm, normal 90 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 1,235 mm (+28% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 639 mm (-34% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 985 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 769 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 1,014 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,246 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 933 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,350 mm (+40% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 767 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,178 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,327 mm (+38% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 1,113 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 806 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 1,040 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 860 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,295 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 804 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 820 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 955 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,034 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,137 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 895 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 689 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 966 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 622 mm (-36% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 846 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 783 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 876 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 749 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 1,224 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,125 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 950 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,110 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 718 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,191 mm (+23% on the normal) |
Wettest: 1998 (1,350 mm). Driest: 2015 (622 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 33.4 °C in December 2024.
A normal year here (1991 to 2020)
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rain mm | 141 | 122 | 122 | 83 | 38 | 26 | 21 | 33 | 32 | 90 | 118 | 140 |
| Mean °C | 19.2 | 18.5 | 16.5 | 12.8 | 9.4 | 6.0 | 5.8 | 8.7 | 13.2 | 15.4 | 16.8 | 18.5 |
Source
Modelled estimates from a weather reanalysis, averaged over the whole place: not readings from a weather station, and not a forecast. The weather model runs about five days behind the weather, so the newest day here is usually five to twelve days ago.
Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains. Muñoz Sabater, J. (2019): ERA5-Land hourly data from 1950 to present, and ERA5-Land monthly averaged data from 1950 to present. Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store (CDS). DOI 10.24381/cds.e2161bac and 10.24381/cds.68d2bb30. ERA5-Land on the Climate Data Store, under CC BY 4.0.
What we changed: we cut ERA5-Land to South Africa, averaged its 9 km grid cells over each ward, municipality, district and province by the area of the place in each cell (MDB boundaries, 2026), took each day’s high and low from 16 of its hourly values, added up days into months, and averaged 1991 to 2020 for the normals.
Dataset: rainfall and temperature by ward, release of 5 November 2026. The South African Weather Service issues the official forecasts and warnings.