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.

The first part of April was relatively dry, enabling us to do a lot of work on the new roads in the Main Reserve and also within the Triangle. 

The rains continued until the 10th, flooding several areas, before the rains disappeared for ten days before returning with heavy storms causing extensive flooding.

The first two weeks of April were hot, windy and dry, this enabled us to burn two areas before the rains started on the 16th.

We had days of light rain and the occasional thunderstorm before one very heavy storm on the 10th.

The rains returned with a vengeance around the 12th, flooding areas, destroying sections of the road network and ensuring that all the grasslands were waterlogged.

There were a few days of rain around the end of the first week, it was sufficient to increase the flow in the Mara River slightly, before dropping to even lower levels. 

The rains continued throughout April and the river rose to the highest levels since December 2006. 

Heavy rains coincided with the new moon and continued, sporadically, for the rest of the month.  The rains were certainly not as heavy or extensive as anticipated for April.

There was heavy and widespread rain for the last three weeks of April, thoroughly soaking the ground and severely damaging the road from Oloololo Gate to Mara Serena. 

The rains continued throughout the first three weeks of April; the rains were characterised by clear mornings, heavy afternoon thunderstorms, followed by overnight showers. 

We had a few days of light rain, starting the 17th.  It was good rain for the grass but not sufficiently heavy to fill our rainwater tanks, pans and watercourses. 

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.

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

We had very heavy thunderstorms during the first week of April, these storms continued throughout most of the month, with a little respite in the last week.

We had a week of good weather at the beginning of the month, followed by heavy rain for a week. 

We had sporadic rain for the first week of April – it was sufficient to keep the grass growing and to fill most of the seasonal water-courses but we did not have any of the extremely heavy storms that characterize the long rains. 

We had intermittent, and at times, heavy thunderstorms over the first week of April. 

The April rains appear to have failed and unless we see any substantial rain in May we can expect a severe drought – we can expect intermittent storms between June and November, but they will probably be insufficient for significant grass growth. 

The rains started on the 1st,  with one or two very heavy storms before they tailed off again after a week.