During the second dekad of March 2022, the rainfall activities were observed over the southern parts of countries in the Gulf of Guinea, parts of eastern Africa and much of the central and southern regions with above-average to well above-
average rainfall conditions observed over the Côte d’Ivoire, central of Ghana,
southernmost of CAR, southern DRC, Tanzania, central and eastern Angola,
most of Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, north and central Botswana,
eastern Namibia, central and eastern parts of South Africa and most of the
southern parts of Madagascar. In the same dekad, below-average to well below-
average rainfall was recorded over southern parts of Guinea Gulf region,
Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, DRC, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda,
Burundi, northern Angola, south-east of Botswana, central of South Africa
The second dekad of March was characterized by neutral to warm SSTs conditions in the Eastern parts the Continent. These SST conditions contributed to above normal precipitation in the most parts Southern Africa regions. In addition, in the equatorial pacific region, neutral conditions have persisted for the past four weeks. Over the Atlantic, the SSTs were mostly dominated by warm conditions.
The outlook for 25-31 March to 1st -7th April 2022, depict a general tendency of low to moderate precipitation over parts of northern North Africa, countries in the Gulf
of Guinea, as well as parts of the central and the southern African sub-region of the continent. During Week 1 to Week 2, moderate to heavy precipitation is expected over Gabon, Congo, DRC, Angola, Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Madagascar. During the same period of these two weeks , the heavy precipitation is very likely over south-eastern DRC, Angola, Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania.