Rainfall at Grant Street for the past week was 17.2mm, reports Robin Stobbs. "Not a lot, but we can expect more wet on Wednesday/Thursday if the various forecasting outfits have got things right!" he said.

Michelle Griffith from the Highlands says that she received 23mm last week, "but more would be welcome!"
Rivendell Farm received 30mm in one delicious all-night shower, says Nick James. "Can I be heard hoping that a little more rain might cool it down...?"

Jim Cambray, who usually updates Grocott's Mail from Park Road, wrote in a slightly different report this week: "When we last visited Kruger National Park in 2009 some of the dams were completely dry. Well, this was not so in 2012 with a ‘once-in-one-hundred-years’ flooding event occurring just when we arrived. If I had taken my pluviometer with me I would have had to empty it four times (400mm) in less than three days at one of the bushcamps we were booked in to, but could not get to. As we travelled to Kruger a low-pressure system was forming over the south-west Indian Ocean, before it intensified and moved westward. This tropical disturbance moved inland where it caused massive flooding and damage in the Kruger National Park. For the second time in just over ten years, the Kruger National Park experienced ‘once-in-one-hundred-years’ flooding.

At a weather station close to the Kruger Park gates, they measured 267mm of rain in 24 hours from Tuesday to Wednesday morning (we arrived through this ‘waterfall’ on the Tuesday). Another 100mm of rain fell in a six-hour period later on Wednesday. We couldn't even get to some of the camps and most of our favourite side roads were closed. After several days of not being able to get to the places we had booked we headed back to Grahamstown to an almost empty pluvio. But then who wants 400mm in less than 3 days?"