14 - Dr Mike Murray-Hudson - Variability in the Okavango's floods and the flood of 2021

Send us Fan MailDr Mike Murray-Hudson returns to attempt to predict this year's flood. Making predictions of a natural occurrence is not easy but Mike shares his expectations based on his years of experience. We discuss base floods in the Eastern Delta in the Gomoti region and the new data that are being collected there and at Divundu. He discusses the impacts of the low flood of 2019 and the peat fires that followed on the vegetation and water flow and how that impacted the 'fast flood' of 2020.Mike also suggests what he thinks we will see in terms of 2021 flood over the next few months and what the high local rainfall means for wildlife in the area.