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Weather in Ward 34, Thulamela
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.0 °C, 0.4 mm of rain; a normal November has 117 mm. Coldest night 16.2 °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 3 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 | 33.0 | 16.2 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 27.5 | 19.0 | 0.3 |
| 3 | 32.0 | 18.2 | 0.1 |
| 4 | 32.2 | 19.9 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 31.7 | 21.2 | 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 117 mm |
| December | 253 mm, normal 159 mm |
| January | 825 mm, normal 171 mm |
| February | 25 mm, normal 152 mm |
| March | 360 mm, normal 94 mm |
| April | 129 mm, normal 46 mm |
| May | 12 mm, normal 23 mm |
| June | 19 mm, normal 15 mm |
| July | 1.1 mm, normal 19 mm |
| August | 30 mm, normal 14 mm |
| September | 106 mm, normal 29 mm |
| October | 20 mm, normal 49 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 660 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 635 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 786 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 518 mm (-42% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 785 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,383 mm (+56% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 846 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,159 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 1,196 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,683 mm (+90% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,178 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 448 mm (-50% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 706 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 815 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 641 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,070 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 920 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 686 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 862 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,202 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 796 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 786 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,155 mm (+30% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,113 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 520 mm (-41% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 739 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 873 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 680 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 847 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 929 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,137 mm (+28% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 760 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,142 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 587 mm (-34% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,343 mm (+51% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,683 mm). Driest: 2002 (448 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 39.1 °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 | 171 | 152 | 94 | 46 | 23 | 15 | 19 | 14 | 29 | 49 | 117 | 159 |
| Mean °C | 22.5 | 22.4 | 21.5 | 19.5 | 17.4 | 15.2 | 14.6 | 16.8 | 19.4 | 20.8 | 21.8 | 22.4 |
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.