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Weather in Ward 4, Thulamela
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.4 °C, 0.3 mm of rain; a normal November has 89 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 4 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 | 33.2 | 20.2 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 29.9 | 20.5 | 0.3 |
| 3 | 33.1 | 18.9 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 33.3 | 21.7 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 33.4 | 22.9 | 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 | 123 mm, normal 89 mm |
| December | 224 mm, normal 122 mm |
| January | 795 mm, normal 134 mm |
| February | 21 mm, normal 112 mm |
| March | 256 mm, normal 64 mm |
| April | 72 mm, normal 29 mm |
| May | 8.7 mm, normal 16 mm |
| June | 12 mm, normal 9.5 mm |
| July | 0.8 mm, normal 12 mm |
| August | 19 mm, normal 8.8 mm |
| September | 73 mm, normal 19 mm |
| October | 13 mm, normal 30 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 483 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 482 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 625 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 363 mm (-44% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 514 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,030 mm (+60% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 559 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 854 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 965 mm (+50% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,251 mm (+94% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 861 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 290 mm (-55% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 527 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 536 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 441 mm (-32% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 744 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 633 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 451 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 617 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 852 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 556 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 528 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 963 mm (+49% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 888 mm (+38% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 323 mm (-50% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 568 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 641 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 460 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 621 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 700 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 921 mm (+43% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 497 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 932 mm (+45% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 391 mm (-39% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 997 mm (+55% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,251 mm). Driest: 2002 (290 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 40.4 °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 | 134 | 112 | 64 | 29 | 16 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 19 | 30 | 89 | 122 |
| Mean °C | 23.9 | 23.8 | 23.0 | 21.0 | 18.6 | 16.3 | 15.8 | 18.2 | 21.0 | 22.5 | 23.5 | 24.0 |
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.