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Weather in Ward 36, Thulamela
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.6 °C, 0.1 mm of rain; a normal November has 116 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 | 33.6 | 16.5 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 29.2 | 19.3 | 0.1 |
| 3 | 32.9 | 18.2 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 33.4 | 20.4 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 33.2 | 21.7 | 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 | 146 mm, normal 116 mm |
| December | 269 mm, normal 156 mm |
| January | 926 mm, normal 170 mm |
| February | 27 mm, normal 149 mm |
| March | 382 mm, normal 93 mm |
| April | 148 mm, normal 46 mm |
| May | 11 mm, normal 23 mm |
| June | 21 mm, normal 15 mm |
| July | 1.4 mm, normal 20 mm |
| August | 39 mm, normal 16 mm |
| September | 135 mm, normal 32 mm |
| October | 21 mm, normal 51 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 649 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 618 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 809 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 502 mm (-43% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 783 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,363 mm (+54% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 844 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,174 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 1,205 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,719 mm (+94% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,201 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 445 mm (-50% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 719 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 820 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 651 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,028 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 908 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 675 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 842 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,190 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 774 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 770 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,205 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,096 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 499 mm (-44% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 741 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 896 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 671 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 824 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 999 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,227 mm (+38% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 770 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,216 mm (+37% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 614 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,363 mm (+54% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,719 mm). Driest: 2002 (445 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 41.3 °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 | 170 | 149 | 93 | 46 | 23 | 15 | 20 | 16 | 32 | 51 | 116 | 156 |
| Mean °C | 23.8 | 23.7 | 22.8 | 20.7 | 18.4 | 16.2 | 15.7 | 17.9 | 20.6 | 22.1 | 23.2 | 23.7 |
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.