Early signs point to good rains

Yesterday, former Meteorological Services director, Thabang Botshoma said there were indicators that all areas that experienced poor rains in the last season will have good rains. Botshoma was speaking at the ongoing 2017/2018 Southern Africa Regional Climate Outlook Forum (SARCOF), an annual meeting in which the Southern African Development Community (SADC) climate scientists hammer out the forecast of the next rain season. The rain season in Botswana generally runs from October to March.

“The SADC region moved from one extremely dry season to a wet season in the period 2016/2017, though the eastern part of the region had below normal rains,” Botshoma said.