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Weather in Ward 5, Thulamela
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.8 °C, 0.3 mm of rain; a normal November has 93 mm. Coldest night 19.4 °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 7 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 | 33.5 | 19.5 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 30.2 | 20.6 | 0.3 |
| 3 | 33.4 | 19.4 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 33.7 | 21.9 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 33.8 | 23.0 | 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 | 127 mm, normal 93 mm |
| December | 245 mm, normal 129 mm |
| January | 877 mm, normal 141 mm |
| February | 23 mm, normal 117 mm |
| March | 276 mm, normal 68 mm |
| April | 83 mm, normal 31 mm |
| May | 8.6 mm, normal 17 mm |
| June | 13 mm, normal 10 mm |
| July | 0.9 mm, normal 13 mm |
| August | 23 mm, normal 9.8 mm |
| September | 82 mm, normal 21 mm |
| October | 14 mm, normal 33 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 507 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 514 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 659 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 376 mm (-45% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 547 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,082 mm (+59% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 610 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 898 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 1,021 mm (+50% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,337 mm (+96% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 912 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 312 mm (-54% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 571 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 579 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 468 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 790 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 677 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 484 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 638 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 881 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 589 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 542 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,012 mm (+48% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 925 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 338 mm (-50% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 594 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 686 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 490 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 642 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 775 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 997 mm (+46% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 547 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,019 mm (+49% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 428 mm (-37% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,073 mm (+57% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,337 mm). Driest: 2002 (312 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 40.7 °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 | 141 | 117 | 68 | 31 | 17 | 10 | 13 | 10 | 21 | 33 | 93 | 129 |
| Mean °C | 24.2 | 24.1 | 23.3 | 21.2 | 18.9 | 16.6 | 16.1 | 18.4 | 21.2 | 22.7 | 23.7 | 24.2 |
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.