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Weather in Ward 19, 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 17.2 °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 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 | 33.6 | 17.2 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 29.7 | 19.4 | 0.2 |
| 3 | 33.3 | 18.7 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 33.7 | 20.8 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 33.7 | 22.1 | 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 | 143 mm, normal 118 mm |
| December | 271 mm, normal 158 mm |
| January | 967 mm, normal 173 mm |
| February | 28 mm, normal 150 mm |
| March | 375 mm, normal 93 mm |
| April | 134 mm, normal 46 mm |
| May | 9.8 mm, normal 23 mm |
| June | 19 mm, normal 15 mm |
| July | 1.3 mm, normal 20 mm |
| August | 39 mm, normal 16 mm |
| September | 125 mm, normal 34 mm |
| October | 19 mm, normal 51 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 650 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 619 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 840 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 504 mm (-44% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 788 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,388 mm (+55% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 848 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,203 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 1,245 mm (+39% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,769 mm (+97% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,239 mm (+38% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 440 mm (-51% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 734 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 833 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 663 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,020 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 908 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 664 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 848 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,206 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 776 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 772 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,246 mm (+39% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,116 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 485 mm (-46% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 760 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 923 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 671 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 815 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 967 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,211 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 717 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,213 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 575 mm (-36% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,294 mm (+44% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,769 mm). Driest: 2002 (440 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 41.5 °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 | 150 | 93 | 46 | 23 | 15 | 20 | 16 | 34 | 51 | 118 | 158 |
| Mean °C | 24.1 | 24.1 | 23.2 | 21.1 | 18.7 | 16.5 | 16.0 | 18.3 | 21.0 | 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.