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Weather in Ward 12, Thulamela
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.7 °C, 0.2 mm of rain; a normal November has 106 mm. Coldest night 19.2 °C on 1 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 | 33.6 | 19.2 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 29.9 | 20.0 | 0.2 |
| 3 | 33.4 | 19.3 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 33.7 | 21.5 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 33.7 | 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 | 140 mm, normal 106 mm |
| December | 258 mm, normal 145 mm |
| January | 898 mm, normal 158 mm |
| February | 26 mm, normal 135 mm |
| March | 329 mm, normal 81 mm |
| April | 107 mm, normal 39 mm |
| May | 9.2 mm, normal 20 mm |
| June | 16 mm, normal 13 mm |
| July | 1.0 mm, normal 16 mm |
| August | 30 mm, normal 13 mm |
| September | 101 mm, normal 27 mm |
| October | 17 mm, normal 42 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 583 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 564 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 754 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 451 mm (-43% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 671 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,254 mm (+58% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 724 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,063 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 1,142 mm (+44% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,556 mm (+96% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,086 mm (+37% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 374 mm (-53% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 646 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 707 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 569 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 912 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 792 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 569 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 759 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,066 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 688 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 671 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,127 mm (+42% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,035 mm (+30% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 415 mm (-48% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 687 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 806 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 582 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 735 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 864 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,108 mm (+39% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 628 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,116 mm (+40% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 496 mm (-38% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,188 mm (+49% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,556 mm). Driest: 2002 (374 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 41.0 °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 | 158 | 135 | 81 | 39 | 20 | 13 | 16 | 13 | 27 | 42 | 106 | 145 |
| Mean °C | 24.1 | 24.0 | 23.2 | 21.1 | 18.8 | 16.6 | 16.1 | 18.4 | 21.1 | 22.5 | 23.6 | 24.1 |
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.