Short rainy season

 

The hydrograph above shows several small peaks of around 0.8-0.9 m stage during the unusually short rainy season this year. The rains normally continue until late July, but this year you can see the rains stop before the middle of July. We can see a long period of flow recession from 12-27 July, during which only 4 mm or precipitation was recorded at Miomote Amedas gauge, and temperatures were consistently in the mid-30s Celsius.

Stage = 0.348 m, Q = 0.348 m3/s