Weather · Kericho County
Weather Forecast for Kericho, Kenya
Kericho is cool highland Kenya — Bompole, Kapser and the vegetable belt on the tea margins, at around 2,000 m, where the weather runs on two clear rainy seasons, the fog on the slopes, and the long dry spell between them that the irrigation system exists to bridge. The dashboard tracks the seasons' shape, the dry spell as it builds, and what each asks of the highland vegetable farms.
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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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 Kericho
Kericho's farming weather is the cool highland pattern at its clearest: two well-defined rainy seasons, a long dry spell between them, and the slope fog that is the county's signature dry-season feature. The vegetable farms of the belt run the dry season on irrigation as much as the wet season on rain — which is why the dry-spell alert is the season's main event on this page, and why the stored-water question is the central one for the year's water planning.
Two notes specific to the belt. The dry spell's length is the design driver: the irrigation system's storage and scheduling are built around how long the dry months run, and the dashboard makes that length visible week by week as the spell builds. And the wet-season storms are fast: the rainy seasons arrive in defined systems with heavy bursts, and the hourly chart is where the spray, harvest and bed-preparation calls get made in the wet months — the compaction and access questions the plateau farms know.
Served areas from this point: Kericho town, Bompole and Kapser. The belt's elevation and aspect shift the local weather — search your farm's location, and note that the higher, windward slopes read differently from the sheltered valley farms.
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 Kericho farms
The dry spell here is the design driver — how does the dashboard make it visible?
Week by week, through the dry-spell alert and the 7-day window. When four or more consecutive low-rain days start stacking up from today, the alert fires, and the 7-day panel shows the shape of the stretch ahead. For the dry-season planning that is the season's real work, the visible length of the spell is the input: it is the number the storage and scheduling design runs on, and the forecast's job is to keep updating it as the season develops.
What does the slope fog mean for the irrigation calls in the dry season?
The same story as the other lake-shore fog, with the highland twist: it is a canopy event, not a soil event. The fog keeps the foliage wet and the drying slow through the dry months — a disease-pressure effect — while the soil underneath runs on the system. The irrigation call on a foggy Kericho morning is the same as on a clear one: check the profile. The difference is that the foggy morning's canopy is the one to scout more closely.
The wet-season storms are fast — what do they do to the field plan?
The usual storm arithmetic, in the cool version: the fast bursts compact the bare beds, they shift the field access for the hours they last, and they set the spray timing for the day. The hourly chart shows the burst's expected window, which is the input that makes the morning's plan possible — spray before it, harvest the keepable crop before it, and keep the heavy machinery off the wet ground through it.
Does the cool temperature change how the ET panel should be read?
It lowers the number, and that is the information. The cool highland days pull less water from the soil than the hotter counties' equivalent, so the ET readings here run lower at similar conditions — which is part of why the dry spell, not the daily water loss, is the dominant dry-season force. The panel still matters: a warm, windy week in the dry spell is the week the soil spends its moisture fastest, and that is exactly when the extra soil check is worth it.
For the tea-margin vegetable farms, does the dashboard cover both the tea and the vegetables?
The weather is one — the forecast panels serve the location, not the crop. What differs is the interpretation, and that is what the crop selector is for: the same week reads as a disease-pressure question for the vegetable canopies and as a water-supply question for the tea's established roots. Pick the crop you're deciding about and the card frames the week accordingly; the numbers underneath are identical.
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