June - September 2024

Rainfall

Temperature

Probability of 400 mm
  • High chances of exceeding 400 mm over parts of western Kenya, nrthern Uganda, central to western Ethiopia, South Sudan, and southern Sudan.
Probability Onset
  • Normal onset forecast over most parts of the region
  • Delayed onset indicated in localized areas of north-eastern and western parts of the region
Onset anomalies
  • Near normal onset expected over most parts of the region with late onset expected over north-eastern Ethiopia and few places over South Sudan.
Onset dates

  • The onset of rainfall forecast shows a progression from south to north from May over the equatorial sector to August over the far north.
Temperature forecast
  • Warmer than average temperatures are expected over most parts of the region.
  • Higher probabilities of above-average temperatures are indicated over northern Sudan, southern and coastal parts of the region.
  • Normal temperatures are expected over a few areas of the cross-border regions of Sudan-Eritrea and Kenya and Uganda.
Rainfall forecast

  • Wetter than normal conditions expected over much of the northern GHA covering much of Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia, south Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, costal parts of Kenya and Somalia.
  • Drier than normal conditions expected over parts of northern Somalia, localized areas in western Ethiopia and north-central South Sudan.
  • The southern and parts of the equatorial sector are climatologically dry this season.