Rains will continue till mid-November – Meteo Agency cautions

The Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMET) says the current heavy rains, which usually go along with strong winds would last till November.

The cautioning follows massive flooding in some parts of Accra after Saturday and Sunday’s rainstorm.
The Acting Officer in Charge of Central Analysis and Forecaster at the Meteo Agency, Felicity Ahafianyo, urged the public to familiarise themselves with daily weather forecasts before departing from their homes.

“Within this week, the focus is moreover the Oti Region, Western Region, Western-North, Ashanti Region and then parts of the coastal belt, especially the northern fringes of the coastal belt. This week, rain is still in the forecast for us”, she added

Already, areas including Kwame Nkrumah Interchange, Odawna, Graphic Road, Adabraka, Weija, SCC, Tuba Tollbooth, Kingstown, Kasoa, Adentan Commando, and Nsakina have been badly affected.
With issues of deprived environmental practices together with the building of houses in waterways and littering of rubbish in drains still an issue. Many have communicated worry that more rains will lead to more disorder and deaths.

Expect regular downpour in the coming days
But Madam Ahafianyo says the country must expect regular downpour in the coming days. “We are looking amid the last week of October to the second week of November. For the rains to stop completely in the southern sector,”

“For most areas over the middle sector, the rains will cease. Those of us along the coast and the east coast it will halt between that second week of November to the third or fourth week of November.

“Then, the Western Region, it will also be in the initial or second week of December. “So, between now and the second week of November, we still anticipate rains but the intensity is what we are looking at,” she said.

Rains will continue till mid-November – Meteo Agency cautions