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Weather in Ward 18, Thulamela
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.7 °C, 0.2 mm of rain; a normal November has 118 mm. Coldest night 16.4 °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 | 33.7 | 16.4 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 28.8 | 19.5 | 0.2 |
| 3 | 32.9 | 18.3 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 33.3 | 20.3 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 33.0 | 21.6 | 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 | 156 mm, normal 118 mm |
| December | 267 mm, normal 159 mm |
| January | 893 mm, normal 173 mm |
| February | 27 mm, normal 152 mm |
| March | 379 mm, normal 95 mm |
| April | 142 mm, normal 47 mm |
| May | 11 mm, normal 23 mm |
| June | 21 mm, normal 15 mm |
| July | 1.3 mm, normal 19 mm |
| August | 36 mm, normal 15 mm |
| September | 124 mm, normal 31 mm |
| October | 21 mm, normal 51 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 661 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 633 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 809 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 517 mm (-42% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 793 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,392 mm (+55% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 856 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,183 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 1,219 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,725 mm (+92% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,207 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 451 mm (-50% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 720 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 829 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 655 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,061 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 923 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 686 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 862 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,211 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 794 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 787 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,196 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,119 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 514 mm (-43% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 750 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 898 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 683 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 842 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 986 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,210 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 780 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,206 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 611 mm (-32% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,380 mm (+54% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,725 mm). Driest: 2002 (451 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 40.9 °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 | 173 | 152 | 95 | 47 | 23 | 15 | 19 | 15 | 31 | 51 | 118 | 159 |
| Mean °C | 23.4 | 23.3 | 22.4 | 20.3 | 18.1 | 15.9 | 15.4 | 17.6 | 20.2 | 21.7 | 22.7 | 23.3 |
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.