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Botswana Seasonal Rainfall Monitoring Portal
LiveOperational seasonal rainfall monitoring platform for Botswana. Automatically updated rainfall maps and time-series derived from blended CHIRPS satellite data and surface station observations.
Open Portal ↗The Botswana Seasonal Rainfall Monitoring Portal is RAMP Lab’s operational rainfall monitoring platform for Botswana. It provides near-real-time rainfall maps and statistics derived from a blend of CHIRPS satellite rainfall estimates and surface station observations from BDMS.
The platform is designed for use by meteorologists, agronomists, government planners, and humanitarian actors who need up-to-date information about rainfall conditions across Botswana.
What the portal provides
- ✓ Rainfall totals and percentage of average
- ✓ Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI)
- ✓ Rainfall anomaly (mm) and percentile rank
- ✓ Multiple accumulation periods (dekadal, monthly, seasonal)
- ✓ Country and district-level maps
- ✓ Dynamic time-series charts
- ✓ Operationally updated