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Weather in Ward 40, Thulamela
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.6 °C, 0.2 mm of rain; a normal November has 118 mm. Coldest night 16.4 °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 | 33.6 | 16.4 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 28.6 | 19.4 | 0.2 |
| 3 | 32.8 | 18.3 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 33.1 | 20.3 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 32.8 | 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 | 267 mm, normal 160 mm |
| January | 888 mm, normal 173 mm |
| February | 27 mm, normal 152 mm |
| March | 376 mm, normal 94 mm |
| April | 138 mm, normal 46 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 | 119 mm, normal 31 mm |
| October | 21 mm, normal 50 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 658 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 633 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 805 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 516 mm (-42% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 789 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,392 mm (+55% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 852 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,179 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 1,217 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,718 mm (+92% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,202 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 447 mm (-50% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 716 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 825 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 651 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,061 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 920 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 681 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 861 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,209 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 794 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 786 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,191 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,120 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 514 mm (-43% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 749 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 893 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 680 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 840 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 975 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,199 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 772 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,200 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 603 mm (-33% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,371 mm (+53% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,718 mm). Driest: 2002 (447 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 40.6 °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 | 152 | 94 | 46 | 23 | 15 | 19 | 15 | 31 | 50 | 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.