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Weather in Ward 35, Thulamela
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.7 °C, 0.2 mm of rain; a normal November has 118 mm. Coldest night 16.3 °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 shares it with 13 neighbouring wards. It lies in one grid cell, and 2 of them get exactly the same figures.
November so far, day by day
| Nov | High °C | Low °C | Rain mm |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 33.7 | 16.3 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 28.6 | 19.5 | 0.2 |
| 3 | 32.9 | 18.3 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 33.2 | 20.3 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 32.9 | 21.5 | 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 | 159 mm, normal 118 mm |
| December | 265 mm, normal 160 mm |
| January | 880 mm, normal 173 mm |
| February | 26 mm, normal 153 mm |
| March | 376 mm, normal 95 mm |
| April | 140 mm, normal 47 mm |
| May | 11 mm, normal 23 mm |
| June | 20 mm, normal 15 mm |
| July | 1.3 mm, normal 19 mm |
| August | 34 mm, normal 15 mm |
| September | 120 mm, normal 31 mm |
| October | 21 mm, normal 51 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 663 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 635 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 806 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 519 mm (-42% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 794 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,395 mm (+55% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 856 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,182 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 1,218 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,721 mm (+91% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,204 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 451 mm (-50% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 719 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 828 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 655 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,067 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 926 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 688 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 865 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,213 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 797 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 789 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,190 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,121 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 517 mm (-42% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 750 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 895 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 685 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 845 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 977 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,197 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 779 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,196 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 608 mm (-32% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,377 mm (+53% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,721 mm). Driest: 2002 (451 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 40.8 °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 | 153 | 95 | 47 | 23 | 15 | 19 | 15 | 31 | 51 | 118 | 160 |
| Mean °C | 23.2 | 23.1 | 22.3 | 20.2 | 18.0 | 15.8 | 15.3 | 17.5 | 20.1 | 21.5 | 22.6 | 23.2 |
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.