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Weather in Ward 2, Thulamela
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.4 °C, 0.2 mm of rain; a normal November has 82 mm. Coldest night 19.0 °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 8 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 | 33.4 | 20.2 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 29.8 | 20.6 | 0.2 |
| 3 | 33.2 | 19.0 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 33.3 | 21.7 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 33.4 | 22.8 | 0.0 |
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 | 118 mm, normal 82 mm |
| December | 200 mm, normal 113 mm |
| January | 704 mm, normal 124 mm |
| February | 18 mm, normal 104 mm |
| March | 229 mm, normal 59 mm |
| April | 56 mm, normal 26 mm |
| May | 8.5 mm, normal 14 mm |
| June | 9.8 mm, normal 8.4 mm |
| July | 0.6 mm, normal 10 mm |
| August | 14 mm, normal 7.2 mm |
| September | 59 mm, normal 16 mm |
| October | 11 mm, normal 26 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 441 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 448 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 570 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 336 mm (-43% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 468 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 951 mm (+61% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 499 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 781 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 877 mm (+49% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,130 mm (+92% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 782 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 262 mm (-56% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 474 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 482 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 397 mm (-33% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 679 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 581 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 413 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 572 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 789 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 512 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 498 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 884 mm (+50% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 827 mm (+40% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 303 mm (-49% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 525 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 577 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 420 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 587 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 615 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 825 mm (+40% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 444 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 836 mm (+42% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 348 mm (-41% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 910 mm (+54% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,130 mm). Driest: 2002 (262 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 40.1 °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 | 124 | 104 | 59 | 26 | 14 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 16 | 26 | 82 | 113 |
| Mean °C | 23.8 | 23.7 | 22.9 | 20.9 | 18.5 | 16.1 | 15.6 | 18.1 | 20.9 | 22.4 | 23.4 | 23.8 |
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.