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Weather in Ward 8, Senqu
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 28.2 °C, 16 mm of rain; a normal November has 121 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 2 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 | 22.9 | 13.9 | 3.5 |
| 2 | 24.0 | 10.3 | 0.2 |
| 3 | 26.1 | 9.5 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 26.4 | 11.5 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 28.2 | 10.4 | 12.7 |
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 | 136 mm, normal 121 mm |
| December | 200 mm, normal 149 mm |
| January | 78 mm, normal 154 mm |
| February | 314 mm, normal 138 mm |
| March | 155 mm, normal 133 mm |
| April | 175 mm, normal 90 mm |
| May | 113 mm, normal 39 mm |
| June | 34 mm, normal 26 mm |
| July | 46 mm, normal 21 mm |
| August | 19 mm, normal 33 mm |
| September | 164 mm, normal 32 mm |
| October | 43 mm, normal 93 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 1,328 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 644 mm (-37% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 1,043 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 843 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 1,057 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,332 mm (+30% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 989 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,395 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 860 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,278 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,427 mm (+39% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 1,176 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 822 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 1,106 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 911 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,401 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 865 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 879 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 1,051 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,119 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,252 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 925 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 717 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,009 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 631 mm (-39% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 846 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 828 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 935 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 817 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 1,317 mm (+28% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,196 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 1,048 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,183 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 773 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,271 mm (+24% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2001 (1,427 mm). Driest: 2015 (631 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 33.7 °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 | 154 | 138 | 133 | 90 | 39 | 26 | 21 | 33 | 32 | 93 | 121 | 149 |
| Mean °C | 19.3 | 18.6 | 16.6 | 12.8 | 9.3 | 5.8 | 5.6 | 8.5 | 13.0 | 15.4 | 16.9 | 18.7 |
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.