Bulletin 5 | 31 August 2018
The water level in Mopti showed again a significant increase last week. Based on the information available on 31st August, OPIDIN predicts that the flood will be high, even higher than the floods in 2014-2015, and comparable to 2016. The water level in Mopti is now 30 cm higher than the peak last year (551 cm, reached on 22 September), but shows the same pattern as in 2016. Although at this stage even a higher flood is predicted, it has to be stressed that the prediction is still uncertain and depends on how long the flood will continue to rise.
