January 2021

Rainfall

Recent rainfall totals
  • Heavy rainfall between 200 - 300 mm observed over central and north-western Tanzania.
  • Moderate rainfall between 100 - 200 mm observed in most parts of central and northern Tanzania, everywhere in Burundi.
  • Light rainfall between 50 - 100 mm observed over north-eastern Tanzania, southern Uganda, and most parts of southern and south-western Kenya.
  • Very light rainfall between 10 - 50 mm observed over most parts of northern Kenya, central and northern Uganda, and south-western Ethiopia.
  • Dry conditions (usual during this time of the year) everywhere in Sudan, central and northern South Sudan, north-eastern Ethiopia, and central and northern Somalia.
Recent rainfall anomalies
  • Much wetter than usual conditions not observed over the region.
  • Wetter than usual conditions observed in isolated areas in central and north-easternTanzania, over much of Lake Victoria peripheral, and in central Uganda.
  • Usual rainfall conditions observed in most parts Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, south-western Uganda, and central and northern Ethiopia.
  • Moderately drier than usual conditions observed over most parts of Kenya, northern and north-eastern Uganda, southern parts of South Sudan, and south-western Ethiopia.
  • Much drier than usual conditions observed over isolated areas in Kenya.
Standardized Precipitation Index
  • Moderately wetter to severely wetter than usual conditions observed over a few areas in central and north-western Tanzania, and in southern parts of Uganda.
  • Usual rainfall conditions observed over central and northern Ethiopia, much of north and western Uganda, much of central and eastern Kenya, southern Somalia, northern Rwanda and Burundi, and western and northern Tanzania.
  • Moderately drier to severely drier than usual conditions observed in western and southern part of Tanzania and Rwanda, most parts of western and north-western Kenya, northern and north-eastern Uganda, southern parts of South Sudan, most parts of Ethiopia.

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Recent rainfall totals
Recent rainfall totals
  • Much wetter than usual conditions in most parts of Tanzania, northeastern Rwanda, Kenya, most parts of Somalia, southwestern Ethiopia , southeastern South Sudan, most parts of eastern, central and northern Uganda.
  • Usual rainfall in western …
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