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September Thematic Report, Extreme weather in Uganda. |
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by Patience Nansamba | 29-09-2022 17:40
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Uganda's climate is largely tropical with two rainy seasons per year, March to May and September to December. The northern region, which forms one quarter of the country lies outside the tropical belt, and hence experiences only one rainy season, March to October.
However, the volatile weather patterns from heatwaves to heavy rains pose a threat to the Uganda's food stocks and to human security. The country experiences extreme weather events which lead to mudslides, landslides and flooding, particularly for country's mountain regions and related districts such as Mbale in the Mt. Elgon region. Extreme events leading to disasters such as floods, droughts and landslides have increased over the last 30 years. Flooding has become more frequent, largely due to increased intense rainfall. This has led to greater impact of floods and are causing more damage due to expanded infrastructure, human settlement and general development of the country. Flooding, particularly in low lying areas of the country present the largest risk, especially the recent floods that occurred in Kasese district of western Uganda. Heavy rainfall in the arid areas has led to flash flooding causing infrastructure damage. The heavy rains distort the mountains thus leading to landslides which leads to death of people and the area becomes infiltrated with water. The increase in heavy rains is attributed to the changing climate patterns and rapid loss of forest cover, due to the trees being cut down to be used as fuel. On May 10th 2020 amidst COVID 19 lock down and restrictions that were established by the government of Uganda in order to curb the spread of COVID 19, communities living around Mt. Rwenzori suffered a double tragedy when heavy rains caused a massive destruction to property and lives. Nyamwamba and Mubuk burst and caused flooding. Also, Kilembe mines hospital was destroyed and a number of households were displaced. Today over 1500 households are displaced and live in makeshift arrangements. Prolonged dry seasons are also frequent leading to loss of crops and livestock. The accumulative damages caused by those natural disasters amount to over 200,000 deaths and at least $80 million economic loss.
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Former E-gen Ambassador
Patience Nansamba
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2 Comments
Hello, this is your mentor Minkyung.
You explained the extreme weather in Uganda in detail. Thanks to the graphs you provided, I could clearly understand the severity of natural hazards. If you could include where you retrieved the information, it would be wonderful!
Thank you for your hard work :)
Posted 01-10-2022 19:12
Hi, Patience Nansamba!
This is your mentor, Yoon.
I am impressed by how you did well in dealing with various extreme kinds of weather occurring in Uganda. However, the images don't seem much related to the article. Also, if the images were not created by you, you should state the reference under the images.
Great job on writing the monthly thematic report!
I am looking forward to reading your next report!
Posted 30-09-2022 23:50