Weather · Uasin Gishu County
Weather Forecast for Eldoret, Kenya
Eldoret sits on one of the wettest, coolest highland plateaus in the country — around 2,000 m, in the heart of the major vegetable zone. The weather here is the wet side of Kenya's farming story: real rainy seasons, fast heavy rain, and the disease pressure that high humidity carries. This dashboard tracks the rain when it comes, the storm structure that shapes the field days, and the dry gaps where the system carries the crop.
Use the location bar below to search your exact farm — the dashboard loads for the point you pick, and the panels update to it. Current Weather is now; the Rainfall Forecast is the next 24 hours and the week; the Irrigation Weather Outlook is the LOW / MODERATE / HIGH attention call; and the Farm Activity Outlook covers field work, spraying, planting, transplanting, harvesting and irrigation. Select your crop in What Are You Growing? to read the same weather through its lens — the forecast never changes, only the interpretation.
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What This Means for Your Farm
Rainfall Forecast
7-Day Farm Forecast
Irrigation Weather Outlook
Water Loss Outlook
Farm Activity Outlook
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Select your crop to see how the current weather interacts with it. The forecast never changes — only the interpretation does.
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Weather and farming in Eldoret
Eldoret's farming weather is the plateau's weather: cool by Kenyan standards, wet in the seasons, and storm-structured in a way that makes the hourly view the working panel. The rains arrive in defined systems with heavy bursts, and on the well-farmed plateau those bursts are the events — they wet the profile, they compact the bare beds, they push the humidity up for the weeks that follow, and they set the disease pressure the vegetable canopies live with. The dashboard's rainfall chart shows the burst structure, and the 7-day view shows the system's shape days ahead.
The dry gaps between the seasons are the irrigation season on the plateau — shorter and less intense than the eastern counties' dry spells, but real enough that the vegetable calendar runs on them. The dry-spell alert flags them as they build, and the ET panel shows how hard the cool-plateau days still pull at the soil, which is less than the hotter counties' equivalent but not zero. For the farms of Kesses, Kibish and Kapsowar, the practical weather question through the year is less 'will it rain' (often, yes) and more 'when, how fast, and what does it do to the week's field plan'.
Served areas from this point: Kesses, Kibish, Kapsowar and the Eldoret plateau. The plateau is broad — search your farm's location, and note that the higher reaches read cooler and wetter than the town default.
Crops this outlook reads for
From the What Are You Growing? selector on this page, the crops most worked here read the same weather with their own framings: Cabbage, French Beans, Onions. The full list — sixteen crops — is available in the selector, and the crop pages carry the deeper agronomy.
FAQ
Weather questions from Eldoret farms
It rains a lot here — what is the irrigation dashboard for on a wet plateau?
For the timing, not the volume. The plateau's water problem is less shortage than scheduling: which days the heavy bursts land (the days to keep machinery off the wet ground and the crops out of the field), which weeks the humidity holds (the disease-pressure weeks), and which dry gaps the system carries. The outlook's HIGH attention calls on the plateau are mostly rain-side — 'the field is taking on water, check before your cycle' — which is the opposite of the eastern counties' story and exactly as useful there.
What does the heavy-burst warning mean for bed preparation?
It means the compaction risk is live. Fast rain on dry, bare or recently-tilled ground is the classic compaction setup — the surface seals, the water runs off instead of soaking in, and the beds carry a hard layer the crop has to push through. The practical read of a high-burst forecast: finish the tilling and bed-shaping before the system arrives, or accept the rework. The rainfall chart's per-hour bars show the burst intensity that makes the difference.
How does the disease-pressure story show up on the dashboard?
Through the combination rather than any single number: a week of rain plus high humidity plus a cool, wet canopy is the setup, and the panels that show it are the rainfall totals, the humidity readings and the rain probability across the 7-day window. The dashboard doesn't diagnose disease — nothing should — but it surfaces the weather weeks that are the classic setup, which is when the scouting and the fungicide calendar (on the crop's own schedule) deserve the closer look.
The dry gap is here — how long will the system need to carry?
The 7-day window shows the visible stretch, and the dry-spell alert marks it as it builds. The honest answer on the plateau is that the gaps are shorter than the eastern drylands' and end with the next season's turn — which the model can see days ahead when the system approaches. The design question (how much storage, how the schedule covers the gap) is the farm-assessment conversation; the forecast's job is to make the gap's length visible early.
Eldoret's higher farms read differently — how different?
Cooler and wetter, in both temperature and rain, and the difference is large enough to matter for the rain panels. The town default sits on the plateau's mid-elevation; the higher reaches take more rain and run a few degrees cooler. Search your farm's location so the rainfall and temperature panels work from the right point — it is the single most useful thing to do on this page for a high-reach farm.
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