12 - 19 March 2024

Rainfall

Temperature

Heavy rainfall

Exceptional rainfall

  • Heavy rainfall (90th percentile) expected in southern parts of Tanzania.
Rainfall forecast (anomalies)

Rainfall anomalies

  • Wetter than usual conditions are expected over isolated areas in southern Tanzania and Ethiopia.
  • Drier than usual conditions are expected in Burundi, Rwanda, southern Uganda, southern Kenya and most parts of Tanzania
Floods update
  • Parts of southern Tanzania is likely to flood due to the heavy rainfall expected in the region. 
Temperature forecast (Anomalies)

Temperature anomalies

  • Warmer than usual temperatures predicted over most parts of the region.
Temperature forecast

Mean temperatures

  • High temperatures (above 32℃) expected over most parts South Sudan, southern Sudan and a few regions in western Ethiopia and northern Kenya.
  • Moderate to high temperatures (20-32℃) expected over most parts of Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea and Sudan.
  • Mild temperature conditions (less than 20℃) expected over parts of central to western Kenya, central Ethiopia, and isolated areas in western Burundi, western Rwanda, southern Tanzania and northern Somalia.
Heat Stress

Heat Stress

  • Elevated levels of heat stress are expected in eastern Tanzania, eastern and northern Kenya, central to southern Somalia, most parts of South Sudan and southern Sudan.
Rainfall forecast

Total rainfall

  • Moderate rainfall (50-200mm) expected over southern parts of Tanzania and western parts of both Burundi and Rwanda.
  • Light rainfall (less than 50 mm) expected in central to northern Tanzania, central to southern Kenya, central parts of Ethiopia, south-western Uganda and isolated areas in Somalia and South Sudan.
  • Dry conditions expected over Sudan, central to northern Kenya, central to northern Uganda and most parts of South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia.