11-20 October, 2025

Rainfall

Recent rainfall totals

High Rainfall Accumulation (Dark Green to Light Green)

  • Highest Rainfall (201–300 mm and 101–200 mm): These values are extremely high for a 10-day period. Rainfall amounts between 101 and 300 mm was observed in western southern and southeastern region of Ethiopia, central Somalia, western and northeastern South Sudan, much of Uganda, western parts of Kenya, and northwestern Tanzania.
  • Significant Rainfall (51–100 mm and 26–50 mm): These categories cover vast areas, forming a wide, central-to-western band and northeastern across the region, including:
    • A few pockets in Somalia
    • Most of southern western and eastern South Sudan.
    • Large sections of Ethiopia (especially the western and southern parts).
    • Western Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and a few pockets in Tanzania.

Moderate to Low Rainfall (Yellow and Orange)

  • Low Rainfall (11–25 mm and 6–10 mm): These values typically ring the high-rainfall areas and transition into the driest zones. They are concentrated over:
    • All countries in the GHA region except Djibouti.

Very Low or No Rain (Light Grey and White)

  • Very Low Rainfall (1–5 mm): Forms a major transitional zone across central Sudan, parts of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, much of eastern Kenya, and most parts of Tanzania.
  • Negligible/No Rain (<1 mm or No Data): These dry conditions dominate northern Sudan, northern parts of Ethiopia, and northwestern parts of Kenya and Tanzania.
Recent rainfall anomalies

Wetter Than Normal Conditions (Green and Light Green)

  • Much Wetter than Normal (Dark Green): Concentrated heavily over the northern parts of the region including Sudan, South Sudan, parts of Eritrea, Ethiopia, central Somalia and the equatorial region including parts of Uganda, and western Kenya.
  • Wetter than Normal (Light Green): Forms a wide band surrounding the darkest green area, covering most of countries highlighted above.

Near Normal Conditions (Light Blue)

  • Near Normal: Predominantly observed in large parts of western and northern parts of the region including Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Kenya and Sudan.

Drier Than Normal Conditions (Yellow and Orange)

  • Drier than Normal (Yellow) and Much Drier than Normal (Orange): These conditions dominate the northern and southern parts of the region.
    • Significant drier areas cover most of central Sudan, northwestern Eritrea, northern Ethiopia, southern Somalia, eastern Kenya, much of Tanzania, and in Burundi.
    • The orange ('Much drier than normal') is evident across most of the countries highlighted.

No Rain (White)

  • No Rain: Indicated in the very northern and the dry parts of the region, particularly in northern parts of Sudan, northern Ethiopia, and northwestern Kenya as well as central and southern Tanzania.

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Recent rainfall totals
Recent rainfall totals

Heavy rainfall of between 51-200 mm was observed in parts of southwestern parts of Kenya and in several parts of Tanzania.

Moderate rainfall of between 26 - 50 mm was observed in parts of central, …

1 - 10 December 2023 Read More
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Heavy rainfall exceeding 200mm was observed in parts of eastern Kenya.

Heavy rainfall of between 51-200 mm was observed in southwestern parts of South Sudan, in western and southern parts of Uganda, in western, central, …

21 - 30 November 2023 Read More
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Heavy rainfall of between 51-200 mm was observed in southwestern and southern parts of Ethiopia, in central and southern parts of Somalia, in eastern, central, coastal and western parts of Kenya, in western and southern …

11 - 20 November 2023 Read More
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Very heavy rainfall of between 200-300mm was observed in the central parts of Kenya.

Heavy rainfall of between 51-200 mm was observed in southwestern and south-central parts of Ethiopia, in southern parts of Somalia, in …

1 - 10 November 2023 Read More
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Heavy rainfall of between 51-200 mm was observed in northwestern, western and southern parts of Ethiopia, in central and southern parts of Somalia, in northeastern, central western and parts of coastal Kenya, in western parts …

21 - 31 October 2023 Read More
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Heavy rainfall exceeding 100 mm was observed in a few areas in southwestern South Sudan, in northwestern Uganda, and southwestern Ethiopia.

Moderate to heavy rainfall of between 26 - 100 mm was observed in much …

11 - 20 October 2023 Read More
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Moderate to heavy rainfall of between 26 - 100 mm was observed in the northern and western parts of South Sudan, in western and southwestern Ethiopia, in a few areas in central Somalia, and in …

1 - 10 October 2023 Read More
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Heavy rainfall exceeding 200 mm was observed in parts of western Ethiopia.

Moderate to heavy rainfall of between 26 - 200 mm was observed in the southern parts of Sudan, in much of South Sudan, …

21 - 30 September 2023 Read More
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Recent rainfall totals

Heavy rainfall exceeding 100 mm was observed in parts of western Ethiopia, and southern parts of South Sudan.

Moderate to heavy rainfall of between 26 - 100 mm was observed in the most southern parts …

11 - 20 September 2023 Read More
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Moderate to heavy rainfall of between 26 - 200 mm was observed in the most southern parts of Sudan, western and north-western Ethiopia, in several parts of South Sudan and Uganda, in western Rwanda, and …

1 - 10 September 2023 Read More
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Moderate to heavy rainfall of between 26 - 100 mm was observed in the southern parts of Sudan, western Eritrea, in several parts of South Sudan, in northern, western and central parts of Ethiopia, in …

21 - 31 August 2023 Read More
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Recent rainfall totals

Moderate to heavy rainfall 100 -200mm was observed in a western Ethiopia.

Moderate rainfall of between 26 - 100 mm was observed in southern parts of Sudan, in southwestern Eritrea, in much of South Sudan, …

11 - 20 August 2023 Read More
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Recent rainfall totals

Moderate rainfall of between 26 - 200 mm was observed in the southern parts of Sudan, western Eritrea, in northern, and western parts of South Sudan, in northern, western and central parts of Ethiopia, and …

11 - 20 August 2023 Read More
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Recent rainfall totals

Moderate to heavy rainfall 100 -200mm was observed in the a few isolated places in western Kenya and western Ethiopia.

Moderate rainfall of between 26 - 100 mm was observed in western and southern parts …

1 - 10 August 2023 Read More
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Recent rainfall totals

Moderate to heavy rainfall 100 -200mm was observed in the western parts of Ethiopia.

Moderate rainfall of between 26 - 100 mm was observed in much of the southern parts of Sudan, in western Eritrea, …

21 - 31 July 2023 Read More