February was, for the most part dry and hot, with one or two storms at the very beginning of the month.  This enabled us to burn one or two blocks in preparation for the rains in March/April.

We had 10 days of heavy and sustained rain amounting to nearly 200 mm.  We have several days when the sun didn’t shine, overcast and drizzle most of the day and rain all night. 

We had some heavy storms in early December, causing more damage to our roads and washing away part of the box culvert at Oloisukut – near Oloololo. 

We had a total of 270 mm (nearly11”) of rain in November, much of it in the form of heavy storms in the last half of the month;  causing considerable damage to the roads and making Mara Bridge impassable for days at a time.

There were a few scattered storms early in the month, sufficient to send the wildebeest back into the Serengeti - by the 15th there was hardly a wildebeest in the Mara. 

We had several days of rain towards the end of the month, with heavy and sustained rain on the 29th and 30th.

There was one storm on the 3rd, with heavy rain near Ngiro-are attracting thousands of wildebeest into that corner of the Triangle.  More rain on the 9th and 10th through to the 16th

July was, for the most part, very dry, with a few isolated showers to settle the dust.  However, there was a very heavy smoke haze and poor visibility for much of the month, caused by fires in the Main Reserve and Northern Serengeti.

The rains stopped in early June, giving us an opportunity to repair most of the damage done to our roads. 

We woke up on the1st to hear that the Talek River had flooded to unprecedented levels and that the river was lapping the Gate House. 

The rains continued throughout the month, with some very heavy and sustained storms along the escarpment – making work on the road to Ngiro-are virtually impossible and sections of the road impassable.

Two weeks of dry weather from the 10th was very welcome.  The rains returned with a vengeance on the 23rd but, at least the dry period enabled us to catch up on road repairs to Ngiro-are – very much needed as it had been too wet to work on since December. 

The rains continued into February with some heavy storms through the middle of the Reserve in the first half of the month. 

We had a total of 1,111.87 mm (44.5”) of rain in 2023.  January will go down as the wettest in recent years, with over 275 mm (>11”) at Serena. 

We had. A very heavy rainstorm between Mugoro and Oloololo Gate on the 6th, this flooded the Olpunyatta Plain and caused sone damage to the bridge at Sankuria.

Rains started in earnest on the 2nd, stopped for a while and then resumed towards month’s end.  There was one exceptionally heavy storm near Oloololo on the 30th.

October was exceptionally dry, with only 42 mm recorded at Serena, some parts of the Triangle had more but other areas missed the rain completely.

We had widespread rain in the first 15 day, this resulted in most of the wildebeest leaving the Triangle – a number crossed into the Main Reserve, the first time in three years and several hundred drowned. 

July and August have been the driest since the Conservancy started operating in the Mara, with only around 5 mm recorded at Serena for August.