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Kosti weather

White Nile · 345,068 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 21:31

Clear sky
31°
Clear sky
Feels like 33°C
Wind
21 km/h
Gusts
46 km/h
Humidity
28 %
Pressure
1010 hPa
Clouds
1 %
Storm
No
Rise 05:42 Set 17:23 Day 11 h 41 min UV 2 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
34°31°
Feels like 35°
Wind ↑ NNW 21 km/h
Gusts 46 km/h
Humidity 21 %
23:00
Clear sky
31°
NNW 21

Kosti forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +4.4° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
26°31°35°40°44°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed41°28°Thu 29 Oct: max 41° · min 31° · normal 31.0°Fri 30 Oct: max 41° · min 29° · normal 31.0°Sat 31 Oct: max 41° · min 29° · normal 30.9°Sun 1 Nov: max 41° · min 29° · normal 30.9°Mon 2 Nov: max 42° · min 29° · normal 30.9°Tue 3 Nov: max 42° · min 30° · normal 30.9°Wed 4 Nov: max 41° · min 28° · normal 30.8°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu27°36°44°42°28°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Kosti climate: what a normal year looks like

Every month of the year sees typical highs of 30 °C or more — August, the mildest, still averages 33 °C.

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 75% of the annual total; August by itself averages 80 mm.

A normal year brings roughly 260 mm of rain — less than 95% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Day and night differ most in March: 38 °C in the afternoon against 23 °C before dawn, a 15 °C swing.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 41 °C, 4 °C warmer than a normal October (37 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan33 °C19 °C0 mm
Feb35 °C21 °C0 mm
Mar38 °C23 °C0 mm
Apr40 °C26 °C2 mm
May40 °C27 °C17 mm
Jun38 °C27 °C27 mm
Jul34 °C25 °C75 mm
Aug33 °C24 °C80 mm
Sep35 °C25 °C44 mm
Oct37 °C25 °C20 mm
Nov37 °C23 °C0 mm
Dec33 °C20 °C0 mm
Whole year36 °C24 °C270 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 13.16° N, 32.66° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Kosti: pollution and pollen

4/6
Poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.527µg/m³
PM1075µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Kosti

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Kosti, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Kosti yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Kosti

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 04:13 Set 17:52
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Africa/Khartoum); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Kosti

Curious about the weather in Kosti on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Kosti weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Kosti, White Nile: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 31 °C (feels like 33 °C) and the wind blows at 21 km/h.

Expected range today: 31 °C to 41 °C and a dry sky; it will be very hot. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations