The first half of June was very wet, after an un-seasonally dry April and May.  The heavy rainfall coincided with an increase in tourism and the roads were again badly damaged as a result.

The long-rains have been very disappointing with very little rain in April and even less in May. 

The rains returned mid-month with a week of heavy and sustained storms, the weather then improved again and April ended up being drier than expected for this time of year.

The rains continued sporadically throughout March, with a number of clear days interspersed with heavy evening thunderstorms and light evening showers. 

We started the month with some very heavy thunderstorms and all night rain.  This soaked the Triangle, just when things were beginning to dry out. 

The exceptionally heavy rain at the end of December and early January caused very considerable infrastructural damage in the Triangle. 

December weather was characterized by beautiful sunny days interspersed with local thunderstorms on some evenings. 

We had ten days of very heavy rain at the beginning of November, the rains then eased off for a while before returning in the last week of the month. 

There was some exceptionally heavy rain in the first few days of October.  We then had a week of beautiful weather before the rains returned on the 16th. 

We were deeply shocked to hear of the death of Dr Zahoor Kashmiri on the 2nd September.  He was killed by an elephant whilst darting in Ethiopia. 

We had heavy and widespread rain in the first week of August, followed by scattered showers and storms for the remainder of the month. 

We had a number of rainstorms between the 4-11th and then intermittent, heavy, showers for the remainder of the month, ending with a storm on the 29th. 

We had five days of fairly heavy and widespread rain between the 6-10th, thereafter the month was mainly sunny and dry.

We had sporadic, and light, rain throughout the month.  This was far less than normal for this time of year.

We had ten days of beautiful, sunny weather before the rains returned on the 10th for two weeks. 

The first ten days of March was sunny and dry;  the rains then started in earnest around the middle of the month and continued until the end. 

The security crisis precipitated by the contested election results eased as the two main parties began negotiating a political settlement under the chairmanship of Dr Koffi Annan and his committee of eminent persons. 

There was widespread unrest after the elections at the end of December, started because of allegations of vote rigging in the Presidential election. 

We had some very heavy thunderstorms around the 13th, this was followed by a week of glorious, sunny weather before the rains returned with a vengeance over Christmas, when we had cold, drizzly and overcast days.

The rains started in earnest in the first week of November, with very heavy thunderstorms over most of the Triangle.