Meteo Agency predicts more rains

The Ghana Meteorological Agency is predicting more rains in the coming days.

According to the Agency, the amount of rains being experienced is normal for this time of the year.

Accra experienced a heavy downpour to the magnitude of 123 millimetres yesterday [Thursday] resulting in flooding in most suburbs.

Speaking to Citi News, a forecaster at the Ghana Meteorological Service, Frederick Otu- Larbi says the weather will completely clear up by the weekend.

“For the rest of the week we are going to have a few more rainfall events. I should say a rainfall amount of a hundred and over millimeters is not a very common occurrence so in terms of what happened on Thursday we are not expecting that in the course of the week however, we will get a few more rainfall.”

“On Friday in particular I am expecting some rainfall about 9am onwards till about midday. But towards the weekend things should clear up a bit up until next week,” he added.

A separate statement issued by the Agency further said Ghanaians should expect “heavy rainfall and gusty winds …over the northern sector of the country this morning.”

“The coastal areas are also expected to experience intermittent light to moderate rain showers this morning and early parts of the afternoon. Later in the afternoon, the entire country is expected to be cloudy with isolated cases of thunderstorms occurring over places in the middle portions of the country.”

REGIONAL FORECAST
REGION                        MIN TEMP/°C   MAX TEMP/°C               WEATHER

UPPER EAST                  25                               34                              PARTLY CLOUDY/ T'STORMS/RAIN

UPPER WEST               25                                  34                            PARTLY CLOUDY/ T'STORMS/RAIN

NORTHERN                  25                                 34                            PARTLY CLOUDY/ T'STORMS/RAIN

BRONG AHAFO            24                                  32                          PARTLY CLOUDY/SUNNY/T'STORMS/RAIN

ASHANTI                       23                                   32                          PARTLY CLOUDY/SUNNY/T'STORMS/RAIN

EASTERN                      23                                   33                            PARTLY CLOUDY/SUNNY/T'STORMS/RAIN

VOLTA                          24                                    33                             PARTLY CLOUDY/SUNNY/T'STORMS/RAIN

WESTERN                  25                                      30                             CLOUDY/RAIN SHOWERS

CENTRAL                   25                                    30                               CLOUDY/RAIN SHOWERS

GREATER ACCRA   26                                   30                               CLOUDY/RAIN SHOWERS

Police command cautions citizens
The Accra police command has cautioned citizens to be extra vigilant during these raining days.

According to them, motorists who ply the roads in the evenings during heavy downpour must take extra precaution to avoid running into floods.

This follows a heavy downpour yesterday which rendered hundreds of people in capital homeless and properties worth thousands of cedis destroyed

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By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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