Okavango Delta Flood
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Okavango Delta Flood
Updated chart has been posted - check http://the-ngami-times-blog.wikispaces.com/
The peak is still peaking.
The peak is still peaking.
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Popular theory is that the Angolan Floods take 6 months to reach Maun - rain in Dec/Jan arrives in June/July. It does not follow the same route or channels every year.
Because the Okavango Delta is so flat and is an area of many minor earthquakes - many subtle changes happen. The hippo is also a major player, either keeping channels open or not.
For example, a lot of the 2004 flood when into Lake Ngami - which had it's biggest floods in decades..
Many Camps/Lodges and their airstrips are following this flood very closely.
Because the Okavango Delta is so flat and is an area of many minor earthquakes - many subtle changes happen. The hippo is also a major player, either keeping channels open or not.
For example, a lot of the 2004 flood when into Lake Ngami - which had it's biggest floods in decades..
Many Camps/Lodges and their airstrips are following this flood very closely.
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I am hearing from a traveller who returned from Botswana in late March that this year that the rainfall during the rainy season was very light and that things are already starting to dry up. Does that mean that the "water lodges" in the Delta will have less than ideal conditions for boating, etc?
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Sounds to me like a great season coming up. Wish I was going this year. Dry back-country and grasslands in northern Botswana, good flows coming into the Delta, the Kwando/Linyanti Rivers and both ends of the Selinda spillway. What a recipe!
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