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June to September 2025 Seasonal Forecast: Above-Normal Rainfall Expected Across Most Parts of the Greater Horn of Africa
20th May 2025, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: The IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) has released the official seasonal climate outlook for the June to September (JJAS) 2025 rainfall season over the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA). The forecast indicates a high likelihood of above-normal rainfall across much of the northern parts of the region. The forecast was issued during the 70th Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum (GHACOF 70).
JJAS is a critical rainy season for countries in the northern and western parts of the GHA. It contributes to over 50% of annual rainfall over the northern parts …
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Meet the Winners of the Climate Action Awards East Africa
ICPAC is pleased to announce the winners for the 2021 Climate Action Awards East Africa—a competition that shines a spotlight on people/organizations with groundbreaking innovations and ideas to mitigate the effects of climate change.
The …
Food Insecurity Persists In The IGAD Region
21 September 2021, Nairobi, Kenya: An estimated 31.4 million people across the IGAD region were classified in crisis or worse (IPC Phase 3+) levels of acute food insecurity in 2020. This figure represents 20% of …
ICPAC Launches Drought Watch System
by Grace Miswa, Viola Otieno, Erick Otenyo and Marta Baraibar
The East Africa Drought Watch (https://droughtwatch.icpac.net/) is the very first public transboundary system that uses near-real-time Earth Observation and Weather Information to monitor …
10 Climate Change Podcasts to get you started with Climate Action
By Marta Baraibar
Outrage and Optimism
Led by ex-Secretary General of the UNFCCC, Christiana Figueres, this Podcast covers the latest news from science, business, finance, politics, and culture every Thursday with a can-do …
50 Years of Disaster Data
by Thabang Doreen Lebese, Linda Ogallo, and Marta Baraibar
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The WMO has just released an Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes (1970–2019) assessing the impacts of …
Insights on Public Information for Weather and Climate
by Kristine Skarsvåg
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At the ICPAC training week in early June, Clare Nullis from WMO talked to the participants about how to handle the media. She has twenty years of journalistic experience, after …