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Weather in Ward 16, Thulamela
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.7 °C, 0.2 mm of rain; a normal November has 121 mm. Coldest night 17.3 °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 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 | 33.7 | 17.3 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 29.6 | 19.5 | 0.2 |
| 3 | 33.4 | 18.8 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 33.7 | 21.0 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 33.7 | 22.2 | 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 | 156 mm, normal 121 mm |
| December | 281 mm, normal 165 mm |
| January | 964 mm, normal 179 mm |
| February | 29 mm, normal 155 mm |
| March | 384 mm, normal 96 mm |
| April | 135 mm, normal 47 mm |
| May | 10 mm, normal 24 mm |
| June | 19 mm, normal 16 mm |
| July | 1.2 mm, normal 20 mm |
| August | 38 mm, normal 16 mm |
| September | 121 mm, normal 34 mm |
| October | 20 mm, normal 52 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 669 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 638 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 859 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 527 mm (-43% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 809 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,446 mm (+57% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 868 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,237 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 1,287 mm (+39% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,812 mm (+96% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,273 mm (+38% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 448 mm (-51% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 746 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 853 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 678 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,061 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 930 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 673 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 882 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,251 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 805 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 796 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,262 mm (+37% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,159 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 500 mm (-46% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 787 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 944 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 689 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 837 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 987 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,241 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 738 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,248 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 582 mm (-37% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,342 mm (+45% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,812 mm). Driest: 2002 (448 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 41.2 °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 | 179 | 155 | 96 | 47 | 24 | 16 | 20 | 16 | 34 | 52 | 121 | 165 |
| Mean °C | 24.0 | 23.9 | 23.1 | 21.0 | 18.8 | 16.6 | 16.1 | 18.3 | 20.9 | 22.3 | 23.4 | 23.9 |
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.