- Meteorological services director David Gikungu said weather drivers show most parts of Kenya will receive depressed rains in the March-May season.
- Met department argued residents of the areas to prepare foe weather change.
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The Metrological Department has said rainfall will be experienced in some parts of the country this week.
The areas are of the Highlands East and West of the Rift Valley, Lake Victoria Basin, South Rift Valley, North Coast, and Southern parts of Garissa.
Met department argued residents of the areas to prepare for weather changes.
"However, the rest of the country will be sunny and dry," the statement read.
In Nairobi, the maximum temperature will be at a high of 27 degrees Celsius with a minimum of 15 degrees Celsius, while Mombasa will have very high maximum temperatures of 34 degrees Celsius with a minimum of 25 degrees Celsius.
Last week, Meteorological services director David Gikungu said weather drivers show most parts of Kenya will receive depressed rains in the March-May season.
This is the main cropping season in Kenya but the rains will begin late, from the first week of April, in most areas.
He said these rains are still adequate if farmers plant fast-growing or drought-resistant crops.
“The country is already experiencing drought conditions, particularly in arid and semi-arid counties, due to inadequate rainfall over the last five seasons,” Dr Gikungu said.
“A sixth consecutive failed rainy season will be devastating for the millions of people already suffering from the drought.”
Major global weather agencies are also pointing to an El Nino at the end of this year.
Dr Gikungu said if El Nino comes, it can completely change the weather patterns in the short rainy season in October, leading to extremely wet weather.
While giving the March-May weather forecast in Nairobi, the Meteorological services director said the long rains will be interspersed with long dry spells and storms.
“Despite the expected depressed rains, isolated incidences of storms that could cause flash floods are still likely to occur,” he said.
March to May period is the major rainfall season (long rains) over most parts of Kenya and much of equatorial Eastern Africa.
The highest seasonal rainfall amounts are normally recorded over the Lake Victoria basin, the highlands west of the Rift Valley, the central and south Rift Valley, the highlands east of the Rift Valley (including Nairobi) and the coastal strip.