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Weather in Ward 3, Thulamela
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.3 °C, 0.2 mm of rain; a normal November has 93 mm. Coldest night 18.9 °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 3 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 | 33.3 | 19.6 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 29.4 | 20.2 | 0.2 |
| 3 | 33.0 | 18.9 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 33.2 | 21.4 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 33.1 | 22.6 | 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 | 132 mm, normal 93 mm |
| December | 218 mm, normal 127 mm |
| January | 757 mm, normal 140 mm |
| February | 21 mm, normal 119 mm |
| March | 271 mm, normal 69 mm |
| April | 76 mm, normal 32 mm |
| May | 9.3 mm, normal 17 mm |
| June | 12 mm, normal 10 mm |
| July | 0.7 mm, normal 13 mm |
| August | 19 mm, normal 9.4 mm |
| September | 73 mm, normal 20 mm |
| October | 13 mm, normal 33 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 506 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 499 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 647 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 394 mm (-42% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 562 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,091 mm (+60% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 598 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 910 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 989 mm (+45% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,311 mm (+92% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 917 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 312 mm (-54% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 542 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 586 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 475 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 792 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 677 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 486 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 666 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 929 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 596 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 594 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 982 mm (+44% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 923 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 363 mm (-47% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 597 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 673 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 495 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 662 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 705 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 928 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 522 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 937 mm (+37% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 409 mm (-40% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,025 mm (+50% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,311 mm). Driest: 2002 (312 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 | 140 | 119 | 69 | 32 | 17 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 20 | 33 | 93 | 127 |
| Mean °C | 23.6 | 23.5 | 22.7 | 20.7 | 18.4 | 16.1 | 15.6 | 17.9 | 20.7 | 22.1 | 23.1 | 23.6 |
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.