Farm Kyffhäuser, Maltahöhe District, Namibia, S 24°28'46" E 16°20'07", Quarter degree squares: 2416AD + 2416CB
Rainfall
Namibia is a rather arid country. Furthermore the rainfall tends to vary a great deal from one year to the next.
Please refer to the Climate/Rainfall part of the Digital Atlas of Namibia by clicking
here.
According to this the rainfall on Farm Kyffhäuser is between 150mm and 200mm per year and the variation in annual rainfall is between 50% and 60%.
The rainfall measurements for Farm Kyffhäuser are taken at the main house.
Click
here to see the measured annual rainfall for Farm Kyffhäuser since 1994.
Click
here to see the measured seasonal rainfall for Farm Kyffhäuser since 1993/94.
Since Farm Kyffhäuser lies in a summer rainfall area, the seasonal rainfall is measured from July of a given year to June of the next year.
The average rainfall has indeed been found to be between 150mm and 200mm per annum.
Four years with rainfall of less than 100mm per year have been recorded, i.e. 1994, 1996, 2004, and 2007.
The highest recorded rainfall was 500mm for the 2008 calender year.
Of this rainfall a total of 375mm was recorded between January and May and a total of 125mm was measured in November and December.
The following two images show the predicted precipitation rates and cloud cover for Southern Africa for the next 24 hours courtesy of Kevin Levey of 1stweather.com and customweather.com.
Weather related links
Namibia Weather Network
Namibrand weather data
Farm Kameelberg weather data (approx. 30km from Kyffhäuser)
Namib Desert Lodge (Solitaire) weather data
Kobus Botha weather photos
WXMAPS.ORG - GFS medium range forecasts of precipitation for Africa
WXMAPS.ORG - 10-day precipitation outlook for Africa
yr.no (Norwegian weather service) - Maltahöhe precipitation
yr.no (Norwegian weather service) - Zebra River precipitation
yr.no (Norwegian weather service) - Nudaus precipitation
yr.no (Norwegian weather service) - Neuras precipitation
yr.no (Norwegian weather service) - Haruchas precipitation
yr.no (Norwegian weather service) - Urikos precipitation
