The threat of drought is a real and ever-present phenomenon in Namibia. Water security relies mainly on dams or the precious and finite resource of groundwater. The majority of the population lives in northern Namibia and is largely dependent on rain-fed subsistence farming. Namibia's agricultural pride, its culture of pristine open-range livestock farming, is also dependent on the whims of the rainfall regime. Therefore, in the spring of 2022, farmers and governments of southern Africa rejoiced when various regional and international meteorological services predicted normal to above-normal rainfall for most of southern Africa, including Namibia, in the 2022/23 rainy season. However, the current season has once again highlighted Namibia's vulnerability to unpredictable rainfall. Contrary to the hopeful forecasts, Namibia and most of the southern African region experienced the second-poorest rainfall since 1981/82. Only the 2018/19 season has been worse.