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Weather in Ward 21, Thulamela
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.6 °C, 0.2 mm of rain; a normal November has 118 mm. Coldest night 16.7 °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 | 16.7 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 29.2 | 19.2 | 0.2 |
| 3 | 33.0 | 18.4 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 33.4 | 20.5 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 33.3 | 21.8 | 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 | 150 mm, normal 118 mm |
| December | 276 mm, normal 159 mm |
| January | 943 mm, normal 173 mm |
| February | 28 mm, normal 151 mm |
| March | 388 mm, normal 94 mm |
| April | 148 mm, normal 46 mm |
| May | 10 mm, normal 23 mm |
| June | 21 mm, normal 15 mm |
| July | 1.4 mm, normal 20 mm |
| August | 40 mm, normal 16 mm |
| September | 133 mm, normal 32 mm |
| October | 22 mm, normal 51 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 654 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 626 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 822 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 510 mm (-43% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 790 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,389 mm (+55% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 851 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,191 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 1,228 mm (+37% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,744 mm (+94% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,220 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 445 mm (-50% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 725 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 830 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 658 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,041 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 915 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 674 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 854 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,209 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 785 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 780 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,219 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,115 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 502 mm (-44% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 754 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 908 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 676 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 828 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 1,012 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,250 mm (+39% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 774 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,243 mm (+38% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 614 mm (-32% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,379 mm (+53% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,744 mm). Driest: 2002 (445 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 41.3 °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 | 151 | 94 | 46 | 23 | 15 | 20 | 16 | 32 | 51 | 118 | 159 |
| Mean °C | 23.8 | 23.7 | 22.9 | 20.8 | 18.5 | 16.3 | 15.8 | 18.0 | 20.7 | 22.1 | 23.2 | 23.8 |
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.