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

Moderate to heavy rainfall between 50 - 100 mm was observed in parts of western and eastern Kenya, in northwestern Tanzania, and in much of Burundi.

Moderate rainfall between 26 - 50 mm was observed …

1 - 10 December 2022 Read More
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Moderate to heavy rainfall between 50 - 100 mm was observed in western and southwestern parts of Uganda, in part of central Kenya, in much of Rwanda, in eastern and western parts of Burundi, and …

21 - 30 November 2022 Read More
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Moderate to heavy rainfall between 50 - 100 mm was observed in western, southwestern and northwestern parts of Uganda, in western and central parts of Kenya, in much of Rwanda and Burundi, and in northwestern …

11 - 20 November 2022 Read More
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Moderate to heavy rainfall between 50 - 100 mm was observed in some areas in southwestern and southeastern parts of Uganda, in western and central part of Kenya, in western Rwanda, and in much of …

1 - 10 November 2022 Read More
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Moderate rainfall (50 - 100 mm) was observed in some areas of western and south-western parts of eastern Ethiopia, a few places in south-western South Sudan, and in north-western and south-western parts of Uganda.

Light …

20 - 31 October 2022 Read More
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Heavy rainfall between 100-200mm was observed in some part of western Ethiopia.

Moderate rainfall between 50 - 100 mm was observed in western and southwestern parts of South Sudan, in western parts of Ethiopia, in …

10 - 20 October 2022 Read More
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Recent rainfall totals

Heavy rainfall between 100-200mm was observed in some part central highlands of Ethiopia.

Moderate rainfall between 50 - 100 mm was observed in western, eastern and southwestern parts of South Sudan, in western and central …

1 - 10 October 2022 Read More
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Moderate to heavy rainfall between 50 - 200 mm was observed in a few areas in south-central and southeastern Sudan, in western and northwestern parts of Ethiopia, in northwestern and western South Sudan and in …

21 - 30 September 2022 Read More
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Recent rainfall totals

Moderate to heavy rainfall between 50 - 200 mm was observed in western and northwestern parts of Ethiopia, in western and southern parts of South Sudan, in northwestern, southwestern and southeastern Uganda, in western parts …

11 - 20 September 2022 Read More
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Recent rainfall totals

Moderate to heavy rainfall (50 - 200 mm) was observed in a few isolated areas in western, south-central, and south-eastern Sudan, western and north-western Ethiopia, north-central, eastern parts, and much of western South Sudan, central …

1 - 10 September 2022 Read More
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Heavy rainfall (100-200mm) was observed in a few areas of south-eastern and north-western South Sudan, western and central Sudan, and the western highlands of Kenya.

Moderate rainfall (50 - 100 mm) was observed in western …

21 - 31 August 2022 Read More
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Recent rainfall totals

Heavy rainfall between 100-200mm was observed in some part in northern Ethiopia, in a few areas in northwest South Sudan, and in part of western Kenya highlands.

Moderate rainfall between 50 - 100 mm was …

11 - 20 August 2022 Read More
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Heavy rainfall between 100-200mm was observed in a few isolated areas in northwestern Eritrea, in part of southwestern Sudan, and in a few isolated areas in northern Ethiopia.

Moderate rainfall between 50 - 100 mm …

1 - 10 August 2022 Read More
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Recent rainfall totals

Heavy rainfall between 100-200mm was observed in a northwestern, and western part of Ethiopia, and in a few areas in southwestern Sudan and northwestern South Sudan.

Moderate rainfall between 50 - 100 mm was observed …

21 - 31 July 2022 Read More
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Recent rainfall totals

Heavy rainfall between 100-200mm was observed in a few isolated areas in north-west South Sudan, and north-western Ethiopia.

Moderate rainfall between 50 - 100 mm was observed in parts of south-west and south-central Sudan, in …

11 - 20 July 2022 Read More