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.

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

We have had reasonable rain (>110 mm), with green grass throughout the Triangle and the western portion of the Main Reserve. 

The heavy rain continued throughout February (nearly 200 mm or 8” this month alone) and the prognosis is for heavier than average rainfall for the next three months.

We had a few days of glorious, sunny weather at the beginning of the month before the rains returned on the 6th.

We continued to have heavy and destructive storms in the first five days of February, we then had a slight respite for two weeks, with beautiful sunny days, before the rains returned with a vengeance. 

By the middle of the month the Mara River was lower than it has ever been – each year for the past several years we have said the same.

The month was interspersed with heavy rainfall, followed by a series of dry days, overall not as wet as January.

Most of February was very hot, dry and windy and the Mara River virtually stopped flowing by the 20th;  there was a slight reprieve when we had some rain in the last week, culminating in a heavy thunderstorm on the 28th, resulting in a marginal increase in river flow. 

There were some sporadic storms throughout the first three weeks, thereafter the weather was wonderfully warm and clear, with hot sunny days and cool clear nights.

Several nights of steady rain have turned the whole Triangle green and filled most of the water courses.

Heavy rains continued into early February and then stopped until the last three days of the month, when heavy and widespread storms continued. 

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 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. 

We had heavy thunderstorms for the first week of February, we then had two weeks of beautiful weather before the rains returned for a few days towards the end of the month. 

We had few days of rain, starting the 3rd.  The rains stopped for a week and then resumed on the 16th, with some very heavy storms followed by all-night drizzle. 

There was a heavy storm on the 1st that was followed by a massive die-off of fish near the confluence of the Mara River and a stream from Kirindon. 

There were two days of rain on the 17/18th, just enough to settle the dust. 

February, for the most part was dry and hot (the hottest February in 30 years), although we had a few days of exceptionally heavy rain around the 20th.

There was sufficient rain through the first week to maintain grass growth.