Climate Monitoring

21 - 31, January 2022

Rainfall

Recent rainfall totals

Recent rainfall anomalies

Standardized Precipitation Index

Moderate to heavy rainfall (between 50 - 200 mm) recorded in southern Rwanda, most of Burundi, and Tanzania.
Moderate rainfall (between 25 - 50 mm) recorded in northern Rwanda, south-western Kenya, north-western Tanzania, and isolated part of western Tanzania.
Light rainfall (between 5 - 25 mm) recorded in isolated parts of northern and south-western Ethiopia, southern Uganda, and western and southern parts of Kenya.
Dry conditions (normal for this time of year) recorded in Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, most parts of Ethiopia, Djibouti, Eritrea, most of north and central Uganda, and in several part of north, eastern and central Kenya.

Much wetter than usual conditions observed in most parts of Rwanda, and north-western, central and eastern Tanzania.

Wetter than usual conditions observed in most of Burundi, coastal parts of Kenya, and north-western parts of Tanzania.

Usual rainfall conditions observed in south-western Uganda, and north-western and southern Tanzania. Most of Sudan, South Sudan, northern Uganda, northern Kenya, eastern Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia received no rain during this period.

Drier than usual conditions observed in several parts of central and south-western Ethiopia, western and central Kenya, most of central and southern Uganda, and in isolated areas of western and south-western Tanzania.

Much drier than usual conditions observed in southern Ethiopia, and central Uganda.