Increasing amounts of aid is getting through, harvests are being reaped in many areas and rains are making more pasture available for surviving livestock, according to the charity.
To avoid the rain: in most of the Northeast, Midwest, and Plains, it rains less in the spring than in the height of summer, but in many Southern states, it rains less in the summer than in the spring.
Mutesi wakes at 5 a.m. every morning to "begin a two-hour trek through Katwe to fill a jug with drinkable water, walking through lowland that is often so severely flooded by Uganda's torrential rains that many residents sleep in hammocks near their ceilings to avoid drowning, " he wrote.
The unusually heavy rains have hit many regions used to downpours but also the arid north-east of Brazil.
Recent rains have made many tracks in southern Somalia impassable.
Millions also live in dilapidated old buildings, many of which cave in during rains.
The economy is in bad shape, and life is made harder by the unusually heavy rains that have rendered many roads impassable and disrupted Kenya's already shaky telephone and electricity services.
During the long rains from March to May, many areas of the country become extremely muddy, and hiking during this time is not recommended.
The CBD normally escapes damage when Jakarta experiences its heavy seasonal rains, but on Thursday, many government offices and businesses were forced to close because staff could not get to work.
Many parts of the country had been badly hit by heavy rains, winds and high waves this year, meteorologists said.
"It always rains when the Aranui arrives, " said our driver, one of many locals who ferried cruise passengers deep into the rainforest, passing the 350m-high Vaipo Waterfall, the largest in the South Pacific, on the way.
So many trees have been cut down for charcoal that there's nothing to stop heavy rains from causing mudslides and flooding.
The property group, which owns Your Move and Reeds Rains, said that summer was peak season for the rental market, as many new graduates were starting jobs.
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