Climate Monitoring

01-10, January 2023

Rainfall

Recent rainfall totals

Recent rainfall anomalies

Standardized Precipitation Index

Moderate to heavy rainfall between 51 - 100 mm was observed in a few areas of central and south-western Tanzania.

Moderate rainfall between 26 - 50 mm was observed in parts of western, central, and north-eastern Tanzania.

Light rainfall between 5 - 25 mm was observed in parts of south-western Ethiopia, southern Uganda, western and south-eastern Kenya, much of Rwanda, several parts of Burundi, and in northern, eastern, and south-eastern Tanzania.

Usual dry rainfall was observed in much of Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, several parts of Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, and in northern, central, western, and eastern Uganda.

Wetter than usual conditions were observed in a few places of north-eastern and central Tanzania, and in coastal Kenya.

Usual rainfall conditions were observed in parts of central and south-western Tanzania.

No rainfall conditions were observed in much of Sudan, South Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, several parts of western, northern and eastern Ethiopia, northern Uganda, and northern Kenya.

Drier than usual conditions were observed in several parts of central and south-western Ethiopia, several parts of Uganda, much of Rwanda and Burundi, several parts of western, central and eastern parts of Kenya, and in northern, western, eastern, and southern parts of Tanzania.

Moderately wet conditions were observed in a few areas in coastal Kenya and in isolated parts of central and north-eastern Tanzania.

Moderately to severely dry conditions were observed in several parts of Uganda, western parts of Kenya, much of Rwanda and Burundi, and in north-western, western and southern parts of Tanzania.

Usual rainfall conditions were observed in much of the rest of the region including Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, several parts of Kenya and Uganda, and in central, northern and south-western Tanzania.