It is drier than the nearby island of Bali.

The driest month is May, with an average of under 60mm.

A severe drought was reported in the south west of the country.

What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. With newly designed graphics from Gapminder, Rosling shows us the magic that pops up when economic growth and electricity turn a boring wash day into an intellectual day of reading.

June and July are usually the wettest months, while February is usually the driest.

The winter is generally much drier than summer, with snow falling for 37 days on average.

In less elevated regions, particularly the lower lying Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands in the east of the country, the climate can be significantly hotter and drier.

In hot and arid regions, day foraging ants face death by desiccation, so the ability to find the shortest route back to the nest reduces that risk.

Further to the north a dry season gradually emerges at Gulu about from the South Sudanese border, November to February is much drier than the rest of the year.

It's almost as if somebody came into your home and rewired your walls so that the next time you turned on the light switch, the toilet flushed three doors down, or your dishwasher went on, or your computer monitor turned off.

So they ended up an Iron Age European society, virtually unable to make their own iron. A second item on my checklist is climate change. Climate can get warmer or colder or dryer or wetter.

We've seen the creation of small computers in the '70s and early '80s, and who would have thought back then that every single person would not have just one computer but probably 20, in your home, and in not just your P.C. but in every device in your washing machine, your cell phone.