28 February - 06 March 2024

Rainfall

Temperature

Heavy rainfall

Exceptional rainfall

  • Heavy to very heavy rainfall (reaching the 95th percentile) expected in parts of central to northern Tanzania and most parts of Burundi.
Rainfall forecast (anomalies)

Rainfall anomalies

  • Wetter than usual conditions expected over most parts of central to northern Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, southern regions of South Sudan, central to south-western Ethiopia, and parts of south-western Kenya.
  • Drier than usual conditions expected in western and south-western border regions of Tanzania.
Floods update
  • n Burundi and central Tanzania, the expected  moderate to heavy rainfall is likely to lead to flooding in the flood-prone areas.
Temperature forecast (Anomalies)

Temperature anomalies

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

Mean temperatures

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

Heat Stress

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

Total rainfall

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