Weather Processes and Storms

Victoria Falls has multiple seasons that determine different kinds of humidity. In the season that is warm and wet, around October, the saturation quantity ad the absolute humidity is much higher. Warm air can hold more water. Thunderstorms are prominent in the warm and wet season. Thunderstorms have three different stages, which are the updraft cumulus stage, mature stage, and dissipating stage. Though in the cool and dry season, the region is generally dry, with the landscape drying up and grass fires occurring more frequently. The cause for the climate moisture and weather is the inter-tropical convergence zone, which is “the meeting place of the sub-tropical high pressure areas of the northern and southern hemispheres. The inter-tropical convergence zone brings rain to the Victoria Falls region.

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/maps/city?LANG=en&PLZ=_____&PLZN=_____&WMO=67843&PAG=1&CONT=afri&LEVEL=160&REGION=0007&LAND=ZW&INFO=0&R=0&NOREGION=1

Also, water droplets will condense from the spray of the falls, and fall as “localized rain.” The rain supports the forest agriculture.

http://aerofile.blogspot.com/2009/07/botswana-rain-showers-virga-victoria.html

The thunderstorms in Victoria Falls are known to be violent. Hail accompanies the thunderstorms often, hail forming with trips in the atmosphere below the freezing level, gaining more layers of ice. The water droplets are picked up by updrafts carried above the freezing level, and the water droplet freezes. Risks of flash flooding increase with the thunderstorms in the warm and wet season. During thunderstorms, the convection form of precipitation occurs. The dew point can reach 100% through evaporation of the Victoria Falls and Zambezi River.

http://www.northpridemale.com/2012/02/victoria-falls-the-smoke-that-thunders/

Sources

"Africa - Zambia Travel Guide & Victoria Falls." Zambia Climate & Weather. Web. 12 Apr. 2012.