The Zimbabwe Meteorological Services Department (MSD) issued the 2017-2018 rainfall seasonal outlook on 28th August 2017. The 2017-2018 national outlook was downscaled from the regional outlook presented at the Southern Africa Regional Climate Outlook Forum SARCOF-21 held in Gaborone, Botswana from 15 to 22 August 2017 by the SADC Climate Services Centre (CSC). For the outlook, the country is demarcated into three (3) regions. The regions are different for each sub-season; October, November and December (OND) and January, February and March (JFM) as illustrated in Figures 1 and 2