Tom van der Meulen, a gyrocopter pilot and resident from Hoedspruit, shared this amazing video of the Blyderivierspoort Dam overflowing on his Facebook page on Tuesday, January 14.

He had captured this amazing view at about 16:00 the day before.

After the rain Limpopo and Mpumalanga had received, this was the sight that greeted him in his gyrocopter. According to Van der Meulen: “It rained between 20mm and 110mm during Sunday night. Most of the rain was next to the mountains.”

Watch the video here:

The Blyderivierspoort Dam is situated in Mpumalanga and was opened in 1974. It is an arch-gravity dam 71m in height and 240m in length, holding a total capacity of 54 050 000m³, and it has a surface area of 240ha.

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The Blyde River Canyon empties into the Blyderivierspoort Dam, near the Swadini Resort, with breathtaking views of the escarpment. The Blyde River is dammed at the mouth of the canyon to create the Blyde Dam near Swadini.

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The Blyde River flows into the Olifants River, which eventually flows into the Massingir Dam in Mozambique.

> Video: Supplied/Tom van der Meulen