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Weather in Ward 6, Ratlou
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.9 °C, 4.5 mm of rain; a normal November has 60 mm. 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 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 | 30.1 | 19.3 | 0.9 |
| 2 | 30.3 | 15.1 | 0.5 |
| 3 | 32.1 | 17.9 | 1.0 |
| 4 | 32.3 | 19.4 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 33.9 | 20.4 | 2.1 |
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 | 114 mm, normal 60 mm |
| December | 111 mm, normal 80 mm |
| January | 29 mm, normal 96 mm |
| February | 55 mm, normal 71 mm |
| March | 187 mm, normal 60 mm |
| April | 134 mm, normal 39 mm |
| May | 20 mm, normal 17 mm |
| June | 13 mm, normal 11 mm |
| July | 1.4 mm, normal 3.7 mm |
| August | 2.9 mm, normal 10 mm |
| September | 144 mm, normal 13 mm |
| October | 10 mm, normal 42 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 705 mm (+40% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 377 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 503 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 382 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 494 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 615 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 589 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 592 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 467 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 732 mm (+46% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 676 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 479 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 401 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 418 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 400 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 792 mm (+58% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 310 mm (-38% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 421 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 721 mm (+43% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 535 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 548 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 383 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 347 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 568 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 325 mm (-35% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 479 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 528 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 389 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 432 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 482 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 705 mm (+40% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 517 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 328 mm (-35% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 308 mm (-39% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 779 mm (+55% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2006 (792 mm). Driest: 2024 (308 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 37.2 °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 | 96 | 71 | 60 | 39 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 42 | 60 | 80 |
| Mean °C | 23.3 | 22.7 | 21.1 | 17.6 | 14.0 | 10.8 | 10.6 | 13.8 | 18.2 | 20.9 | 21.9 | 23.1 |
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.