Climate Prediction Center's Africa Hazards Outlook
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Abstract: The Africa Hazards Outlook for 19–25 June 2025 highlights multiple extreme weather risks across the continent. Persisting abnormal dryness is affecting eastern Nigeria, western Cameroon, and southern Chad, with observed vegetation degradation. Concurrently, flooding remains a serious threat along the Gulf of Guinea and parts of Central and Southern Africa, including Kinshasa (DRC), Mokwa (Nigeria), and the Eastern Cape Province (South Africa). Inundation continues in South Sudan’s Sudd wetlands, while the Omo Gibe River has overflowed into areas surrounding Lake Turkana in Ethiopia. In East Africa, worsening rainfall deficits affect southern South Sudan, northwestern Uganda, and parts of Ethiopia and Kenya, intensifying drought stress. Forecasts indicate heavy rainfall in western Ethiopia and southwestern Kenya, posing localized flood risks, while West Africa braces for continued storms. The report, developed with contributions from NOAA, FEWS NET, and partners, is a tool to anticipate impacts on crops and pastures but does not reflect food security projections.