It is very hot here in Uganda, and Barnaby Bear is beginning to wish he could take a layer of fur
off! It's
not like this all the time though. In Africa there are only two seasons - dry, and rainy. There are
two dry seasons, from December to February, and June to August.
In the rainy season, usually between March and May, it rains all the time.
When it is the rainy season in Uganda, it is not like our autumn - it pours down at the same time, but not necessarily every day! In Mukono there are deep ditches everywhere for the rain, to stop flooding, and there are planks, or bridges to cross them.
Today in Uganda, at Entebbe, this is what the weather is like:
The weather is like this because of where Uganda is: it is on the equator, so it is either very close to the sun, or very far away. This also means that it always gets dark here at the same time every evening, and the sun comes up at the same time every morning!
Uganda is a lovely country, with lots of different environments.
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...and more rural, farming areas. |
Uganda is a huge country, and the population is quite small.
That means that there are huge rural areas, with very few houses.
(Click the photograph to open a larger version in a new window).
If you look closely at the landscape, you can see that small areas of the land have been
cultivated.
Do you know what the large leaves
in the foreground are?
The long hot season, and very wet season means that the land in Uganda is very rich and fertile. The heat means you will find some very different plants growing here to in cooler parts of the world.
Do you know what is growing in this field?
It looks like some fields you would find in the UK, but this crop won't grow in the UKs colder climate.
Because of the climate and plantlife here, Uganda has some very different animals too.
This is an African Elephant, who lives in Uganda.
Click the photo to learn more about Uganda's animals.
Uganda has a large lake, near Kampala. The lake is actually in three countries: Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The lake is very important for fishing, for people to earn a living.
This lake is a very special place: it is the second largest fresh-water lake in
the world
- about the same size as Ireland.
Just to the left of the photograph, in Lake Victoria, is the source of the River Nile.
Most of Lake Victoria's water comes from the sky (although there are a lot of
tributaries). The lake has more
tributaries than rivers coming out of it. That means there are more rivers running into it,
than coming out of it.
Click here to find out more about the Victoria Nile and why it is important to uganda
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