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Here's a quick weather update for the week of 28 March to 3 April 2023 in Kenya.

🌦️ Expect reduced rainfall, but isolated storms possible in Lake Victoria Basin, South Rift Valley, and North-western Kenya. 🌡️ Moderate temperatures are expected. Stay safe☔🌥️

A new Nowcasting project in collaboration with the World Meteorological Organization Kulima Integrated Development Solutions SA Weather Service just in time for #WorldMetDay

A storm short-range weather models didn’t see. Breaking down how a storm over Lake Victoria could have been predicted using nowcasting. Currently, there is one tool people in Kenya can use to access real-time storm information: FASTA
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Let's congratulate our colleagues at University of Nairobi on the recent inauguration of their training lab for weather and climate science, partly supported by the SWIFT-NESST funding
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This will be used to train students on satellite data interpretation and nowcasting

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Most of the country is likely to experience sunny, dry weather from October 25 to October 31st, 2022. However, some regions of the Coast, North Eastern Kenya, Central Rift Valley, Highlands West of the Rift Valley, Lake Victoria Basin are expected to receive rainfall, as shown.

It's likely to be sunny and dry in most of the country. However, as shown in Figure 1, occasional rainfall is anticipated over some areas of the Coast, Northeastern Kenya, the Lake Victoria Basin, the Central and South Rift Valley, the Highlands East and West of the Rift Valley.

This week in Nairobi, we're working with Kenya Met Department 🇰🇪 to bring near real-time storm information to Kenya via a smartphone app.

The @FASTAWeather team have met with potential users ranging from aviation, community leaders, agriculture and disaster management.

'Nowcasting for Africa', now published GCRF African SWIFT rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/we… . Those in #Kenya can access nowcasts via FASTA App

Across #Kenya , we provide near real-time weather information anyone can use.

“I checked the app and saw that there would not be dangerous storms all night and that’s why I only got a flask of tea, bread, and headed to the lake” says fisherman Ouma Ogogo.

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Congratulaions Dr Beth Woodhams (Beth Woodhams)! 😀

Occasional rainfall likely over the Lake Victoria Basin, Highlands West & East of the Rift Valley.

See forecasted weekly total rainfall valid 24th - 30th May, 2022 meteo.go.ke

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A SWIFT paper has been published in the latest American Meteorological Society #BulletinAMS explaining some of our ideas about the future of African forecasting.

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News of FASTA is spreading 📰
Kenyans can download the app here:play.google.com/store/apps/det…

Kenyans hook up to storm forecast app theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/science-he… via The EastAfrican FASTA GCRF African SWIFT Doug Parker Kenya Met Department 🇰🇪 National Centre for Atmospheric Science

Coverage of the new FASTA app that is now available to use in Kenya 🇰🇪