For example, 1. Eastern and southern Tanzania, are showing a strong vegetative development signal. Better than normal vegetative conditions in southern Zimbabwe, central Mozambique, and southeastern Zambia in early December had approached normal by month end. This is reflected in the CCD images and ground reports of poor monthly rainfall totals. The sub-regions can be administrative boundaries, watersheds, or agricultural areas.
Readers are welcome to suggest areas for detailed monitoring.
These have been summarised in the December Situation Map , example cumulative curves are presented here. The first grouping is where the season is progressing much better than average. This can be seen in the northeastern quadrant of SADC, including Tanzania and northern Zambia . The season started on time and has progressed steadily and strongly, cumulative levels are about three weeks ahead of normal. The southern extent of this region extends down to northern Zimbabwe , where conditions begin to grade to closer to normal and poorer pockets exist.