July 2017

Bulletin

Bulletin

This bulletin reviews the climate condition over the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) region for the month of June 2017, and highlights the rainfall and temperature outlook for the month of August 2017, together with the socio-economic impacts associated with both the observed and the predicted conditions. In the month of June rainfall is mainly expected in the northern sector as well as western and central equatorial parts of the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA). The Oceanic Nino Index (ONI) and the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) are all in neutral phase as at the end of June 2017 with global models predicting a persistence of neutral state up to the end of year