Drought in Ward 7, Ga-Segonyana

October 2026

• +2.07No droughtThe drought score
• +1.01Rain, 12 monthsFrom a weather model
• +1.36Rain, 3 months228% of normal
• +1.05Rain less evaporation, 12 monthsFrom a weather model
• +4.86GreennessAgainst normal, from space

Scores are in steps from normal (the 1991 to 2020 usual for the time of year): 0 is normal, −1 is dry (drier than about five years in six), −2 is very dry (drier than about 49 years in 50). What the scores mean.

The last two years

No drought Dry Moderate drought Severe drought Extreme drought

Scores are in steps from normal: 0 is normal, −1 is dry, −2 is very dry. The second reading is the same 12-month rain score from a coarser version of the weather model (about 27 km against 9 km), so the two differ a little.

Every month since 2015

The longest dry spells here (moderate or worse, month after month):

• December 2018 to December 201913 months; worst October 2019, −1.83 (severe drought)
• August 2016 to December 20165 months; worst September 2016, −1.31 (moderate drought)
• November 2015 to February 20164 months; worst December 2015, −1.76 (severe drought)

A ward’s record starts in 2015; its municipality’s goes back to 1951.

The dams in Northern Cape

• 92.3%Full nowAll 6 dams in the weekly report, by what they hold
• 87.6%A year ago

• Spitskop Dam101.8% full, 84.9% a year ago
• Vaalharts Weir Dam70.9% full, 78.5% a year ago
• Boegoeberg Dam105.6% full, 99.2% a year ago

The province as a whole, not necessarily the dams that supply this place: we hold no link yet between a dam and the towns it supplies. Source: Department of Water and Sanitation, weekly State of Dams. Every dam, with its water surface from space since 2017.

Rain here

1.8 mm so far in November; a normal November has 40 mm. The weather here, day by day · How green it is