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Sudan topography is generally a broad plain, with mountains in the northeast
near the Red Sea coast, and mountains near the southeastern borders. The
Nile is the dominant geographical feature of Sudan as around 70% of the
area of the country is situated with the Nile River catchment. The Blue
Nile and the White Nile originating, respectively, in the Ethiopian highlands
and the Equatorial lakes, join in Khartoum to form the Nile River which
flows to Egypt. Th Nile has several tributaries and extensive swamps in
the south. River Nile is the longest River in the world, of 6671 km long
(from it’s remotest headstream in Burundi to the Mediterrnean Sea).
It is shared by ten countries but about 60% of its length lies within
Sudan.
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- CLIMATE
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- SUDAN
lies in tropical Africa.Its climate varies from equatorial in
the south - Savanna in the midlands.Continental in the North.Mediteranian
climate with winter rain in the east.
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- WINDS
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- For
the most part, the country has tropical continental climate in which two winds play
an important role:
- The
Northerlies bring cool, dry weather in winter and heat in summer.
- The
Southerlies carry
rain from the south in January and reach their extreme in August.
- The Northerlies
: dominate the
desert regions of the dry north. Temperatures are high and rainfall
low :0.1 mm average.
- The Southerlies: become
more influential as we move south, bringing rain with an annual
average of 175mm. The rain season occupy the months of July,
August and September.
- Average rainfall in the South is (1.250 mm) The climate
of the Red Sea area differs from the rest of Sudan, with
scattered showers in winter and humid hot tempratures
in Summer.
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- PAIN FALL
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- The
annual rainfall is 1800 mm (72 inches) though at Khartoum it is only 80 mm. The
rainy season extends roughly
from June to September.
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Extremely varied equatorial in the southern most part of the country
changing to savanah, marshland, long and short grasses in the states of
Kordofan,Darfur and central -semi-desert and desert to the North
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