Precipitation Anomalies Across The Amazon Basin
Eight River Trains are concentrated in the North East
STATS: The past few weeks have been the toughest of the season. Nevertheless, our guests embraced the challenge and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Rising water levels did not deter the excitement, as anglers continued battling between 350 and 400 peacocks each week. Adding to the thrill, every one of our eight angler parties also landed a couple of impressive 20-pound lunkers, making the effort well worth it despite the demanding conditions.
LIFETIME MEMORIES: The Macek party returned for their third year in a row, and their perseverance and fishing skills were rewarded with some truly impressive fish.
RAINFALL GUESSWORK: We are publishing this report well before the New Years to inform our incoming parties on January 3rd what to expect.
We are moving all our 8 River Trains 700 miles towards the North East zone where rainfall forecasts fortunately are quite low which will reignite our typical 2000 fish a week for each of our 8 anglers’ parties.
Our water-level predictions are not just based on immediate rainfall forecasts but also on longer term (3-month) forecasts for unusual (or what is called anomalous) rainfall across all of our fishing zones. (see map below)
Rainfall Anomaly Forecast Map
(Valid for December-January-February)
Source: CPTEC-INPE
In the above map, the areas with higher than expected rainfall are in blue. No unusual rainfall is expected in the white areas for the next 3 months but, these are currently with very high water as is expected this time of the year.
However, as we mentioned above ,we have eight River Trains navigating towards the North East Dry Zone marked in green in the above map, with water levels still at the jungle-line threshold as shown in the drawing below.
As shown on the map below, although water levels continue to rise in all 10 rivers we control across the Amazon, much smaller increases are expected in the areas shown in light blue within the North East Dry Zone, outlined in green on the map.
Source: CPTEC-INPE
A 7-Day Forecast for more than 2 inches of rain means water levels may rise; under 2 inches means that water levels may drop. Across most of the Amazon rainfall forecast is well above the mentioned 2 inches, but since the North East Zone marked in green is just at 2 inches or lower (see blue and white in the map), we will face the Amazon beasts in great numbers!