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Weather in Ward 32, Thulamela
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 32.6 °C, 0.7 mm of rain; a normal November has 110 mm. Coldest night 16.5 °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 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 | 32.6 | 16.5 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 26.4 | 18.2 | 0.4 |
| 3 | 31.2 | 17.7 | 0.3 |
| 4 | 31.3 | 19.1 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 30.7 | 20.3 | 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 | 170 mm, normal 110 mm |
| December | 235 mm, normal 152 mm |
| January | 753 mm, normal 161 mm |
| February | 22 mm, normal 141 mm |
| March | 329 mm, normal 85 mm |
| April | 102 mm, normal 41 mm |
| May | 11 mm, normal 21 mm |
| June | 15 mm, normal 13 mm |
| July | 0.8 mm, normal 15 mm |
| August | 22 mm, normal 11 mm |
| September | 75 mm, normal 22 mm |
| October | 17 mm, normal 41 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 598 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 610 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 707 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 476 mm (-41% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 716 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,291 mm (+59% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 764 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,051 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 1,097 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,518 mm (+87% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,063 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 395 mm (-51% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 639 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 740 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 566 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,003 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 844 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 625 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 800 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,116 mm (+37% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 749 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 741 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,047 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,046 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 491 mm (-40% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 685 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 775 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 615 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 796 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 826 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,026 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 685 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,053 mm (+30% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 519 mm (-36% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,233 mm (+52% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,518 mm). Driest: 2002 (395 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 37.3 °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 | 161 | 141 | 85 | 41 | 21 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 22 | 41 | 110 | 152 |
| Mean °C | 21.5 | 21.3 | 20.5 | 18.5 | 16.3 | 14.1 | 13.5 | 15.8 | 18.5 | 19.9 | 20.8 | 21.4 |
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.