It has been a long three months of dry spell but the harsh weather has come to an end after the meteorological department announced rainy season is back.
Most parts of Kenya will receive some light rains on Thursday, but the sun will be back on Friday this week.
The meteorological department said only western Kenya is assured of showers and thunderstorms throughout the week, mainly in the afternoon.
However, the record-breaking temperatures will continue across the country.
Central Kenya, including Nairobi, will be scorching at a maximum of 33 degrees Celsius this week, and Turkana 40 degrees.
Acting Met director Stella Aura said parts of Northeastern Kenya were also expected to receive heavy rainfall on Wednesday and Thursday.
For the rest of the country, scattered rains will come Thursday afternoon, before dry weather continues on Friday.
The scattered rains will be too little to reduce water shortage in most parts of Kenya.
But they point to heavy rains expected next week.
The weatherman blamed the dry weather on a tropical cyclone that landed in Mozambique on March 14, saying it sucked most of the rains meant for Kenya.
“The cyclone significantly reduced moisture influx into the country and this led to the continued sunny and dry weather conditions,” Aura said on March 19.
The cyclone Idai has already weakened significantly.
The department said although Kenya had expected good rains this season, the cyclone had changed things.
“The spatial and temporal distribution of the March-May 2019 seasonal rainfall was expected to be good over most of the Western sector … However, the existence of tropical cyclones is likely to result in poor distribution even over the Western sector of the country,” Aura said.
The US civilian space programme Nasa had earlier warned although Idai was gone, Cyclone Joaninha near Mauritius Is developing and may reduce the moisture influx into East Africa, reducing the amount of rain in Kenya.
Nasa said Joaninha was weak, but still urged caution.
The dry conditions continue to fuel drought mostly in northern Kenya.
In total, 1.2 million people are affected by the drought, but those already starving are 865,000 in 17 counties, says the National Drought Management Authority.
On Monday, governors on accused the national government mismanaging the hunger response, leaving thousands of people starving.
Drought risk reduction and response is a function of the national government coordinated by the National Drought Management Authority.
The governors also launched a fund where each county will contribute at least Sh1 million to the kitty, to be managed by a secretariat within the Council of Governors.