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Weather in Ward 24, Thulamela
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.2 °C, 0.3 mm of rain; a normal November has 117 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 | 33.2 | 16.4 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 28.0 | 19.1 | 0.3 |
| 3 | 32.3 | 18.2 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 32.6 | 20.2 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 32.2 | 21.3 | 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 | 167 mm, normal 117 mm |
| December | 263 mm, normal 161 mm |
| January | 867 mm, normal 173 mm |
| February | 26 mm, normal 152 mm |
| March | 366 mm, normal 93 mm |
| April | 124 mm, normal 46 mm |
| May | 11 mm, normal 23 mm |
| June | 18 mm, normal 15 mm |
| July | 1.1 mm, normal 18 mm |
| August | 30 mm, normal 14 mm |
| September | 103 mm, normal 29 mm |
| October | 20 mm, normal 48 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 648 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 636 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 792 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 515 mm (-42% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 778 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,394 mm (+57% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 838 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,164 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 1,212 mm (+37% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,693 mm (+91% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,186 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 434 mm (-51% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 701 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 814 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 636 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,062 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 908 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 667 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 857 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,204 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 794 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 786 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,171 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,123 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 513 mm (-42% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 745 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 874 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 669 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 834 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 935 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,162 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 746 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,175 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 577 mm (-35% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,340 mm (+51% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,693 mm). Driest: 2002 (434 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 39.5 °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 | 152 | 93 | 46 | 23 | 15 | 18 | 14 | 29 | 48 | 117 | 161 |
| Mean °C | 22.7 | 22.6 | 21.8 | 19.7 | 17.6 | 15.4 | 14.8 | 17.0 | 19.7 | 21.1 | 22.1 | 22.6 |
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.