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Weather in Ward 23, Thulamela
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.6 °C, 0.2 mm of rain; a normal November has 119 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 4 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 | 28.9 | 19.7 | 0.2 |
| 3 | 33.0 | 18.7 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 33.4 | 21.0 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 33.2 | 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 | 163 mm, normal 119 mm |
| December | 274 mm, normal 163 mm |
| January | 917 mm, normal 176 mm |
| February | 27 mm, normal 153 mm |
| March | 375 mm, normal 94 mm |
| April | 128 mm, normal 46 mm |
| May | 11 mm, normal 23 mm |
| June | 19 mm, normal 15 mm |
| July | 1.2 mm, normal 19 mm |
| August | 33 mm, normal 15 mm |
| September | 110 mm, normal 31 mm |
| October | 20 mm, normal 49 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 657 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 638 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 826 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 521 mm (-42% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 792 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,424 mm (+57% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 851 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,202 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 1,253 mm (+38% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,753 mm (+94% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,230 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 438 mm (-52% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 721 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 832 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 655 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,063 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 917 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 666 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 871 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,230 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 800 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 793 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,217 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,145 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 506 mm (-44% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 769 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 908 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 677 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 834 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 959 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,203 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 739 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,215 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 576 mm (-36% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,340 mm (+48% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,753 mm). Driest: 2002 (438 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 40.5 °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 | 176 | 153 | 94 | 46 | 23 | 15 | 19 | 15 | 31 | 49 | 119 | 163 |
| Mean °C | 23.4 | 23.4 | 22.6 | 20.5 | 18.4 | 16.2 | 15.7 | 17.8 | 20.5 | 21.8 | 22.8 | 23.4 |
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.