Met predicts depressed short rains for 3 months


The Standard | by Anyango Otieno

The country will experience depressed rainfall during October-November-December short rains season, the Kenya Meteorological Department has predicted.

This has been attributed to a negative Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) that is not favourable for good rainfall over most of East Africa and a mild La-Nina.

“Equatorial sea surface temperatures (SSTs) are near-to-below average across the central to eastern Pacific Ocean, which implies that mild La-Nina conditions are present,” reads the department’s latest outlook released on Saturday…

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