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Weather in Ward 1, Thembelihle
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 37.4 °C, 0.4 mm of rain; a normal November has 30 mm. 1 day reached 35 °C. Coldest night 15.1 °C on 2 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 27 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 | 31.2 | 17.4 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 30.8 | 15.1 | 0.0 |
| 3 | 33.2 | 15.7 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 33.5 | 17.1 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 37.4 | 20.0 | 0.4 |
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 | 42 mm, normal 30 mm |
| December | 63 mm, normal 39 mm |
| January | 2.3 mm, normal 58 mm |
| February | 96 mm, normal 52 mm |
| March | 84 mm, normal 54 mm |
| April | 147 mm, normal 37 mm |
| May | 59 mm, normal 19 mm |
| June | 18 mm, normal 13 mm |
| July | 0.7 mm, normal 8.2 mm |
| August | 3.6 mm, normal 9.5 mm |
| September | 66 mm, normal 13 mm |
| October | 23 mm, normal 26 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 564 mm (+57% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 216 mm (-40% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 283 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 233 mm (-35% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 331 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 435 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 301 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 326 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 379 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 535 mm (+49% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 588 mm (+64% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 370 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 310 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 422 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 385 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 597 mm (+67% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 334 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 369 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 392 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 408 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 512 mm (+43% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 383 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 198 mm (-45% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 281 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 209 mm (-42% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 301 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 300 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 236 mm (-34% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 168 mm (-53% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 382 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 467 mm (+30% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 403 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 288 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 214 mm (-40% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 438 mm (+22% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2006 (597 mm). Driest: 2019 (168 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 40.8 °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 | 58 | 52 | 54 | 37 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 26 | 30 | 39 |
| Mean °C | 26.1 | 25.4 | 23.0 | 18.2 | 14.3 | 10.5 | 10.3 | 12.8 | 17.1 | 20.5 | 22.8 | 25.3 |
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.