Rainfall - runoff madness...

It finally rained today..! After two weeks of great weather we could get new surface water data this morning. I am used to standing in the rain and getting cold while collecting these data, but our students were lucky. Rainfall stopped at dawn and the only inconvenience was the mud on our feet.


I went out with Robert, Pieter and Achille to take some samples of rainfall in their area and to do discharge measurements in the - now swollen - streams. This is allways a bit of a frantic process as the water level changes fast and 10 students want to measure discharge at the same time with the same instrument...


We also took some samples of the river water, which was pretty muddy as compared to before.


After lunch in Montouro, we ended up in some agricultural field of an old lady, who had given permission to place a raingauge there. People start to know us now and we get invited for drinks and to see their baby pigs!


Posted by Maarten Waterloo