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Weather in Ward 30, Thulamela
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 32.9 °C, 0.3 mm of rain; a normal November has 108 mm. Coldest night 17.5 °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 6 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 | 32.9 | 17.5 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 27.9 | 19.1 | 0.3 |
| 3 | 32.1 | 18.1 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 32.3 | 20.2 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 31.9 | 21.4 | 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 | 160 mm, normal 108 mm |
| December | 245 mm, normal 149 mm |
| January | 810 mm, normal 160 mm |
| February | 24 mm, normal 139 mm |
| March | 326 mm, normal 83 mm |
| April | 98 mm, normal 40 mm |
| May | 11 mm, normal 20 mm |
| June | 15 mm, normal 13 mm |
| July | 0.9 mm, normal 16 mm |
| August | 23 mm, normal 11 mm |
| September | 81 mm, normal 24 mm |
| October | 16 mm, normal 41 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 585 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 586 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 727 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 468 mm (-42% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 693 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,281 mm (+59% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 741 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,059 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 1,118 mm (+39% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,534 mm (+91% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,075 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 380 mm (-53% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 633 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 723 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 566 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 959 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 815 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 592 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 782 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,097 mm (+37% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 721 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 715 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,086 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,046 mm (+30% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 458 mm (-43% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 687 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 787 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 597 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 766 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 827 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,052 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 652 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,073 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 501 mm (-38% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,209 mm (+50% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,534 mm). Driest: 2002 (380 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 38.7 °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 | 160 | 139 | 83 | 40 | 20 | 13 | 16 | 11 | 24 | 41 | 108 | 149 |
| Mean °C | 22.5 | 22.4 | 21.6 | 19.6 | 17.4 | 15.2 | 14.6 | 16.9 | 19.6 | 21.0 | 22.0 | 22.5 |
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.