DAR ES SALAAM is currently among the hottest cities in Africa with its temperatures soaring from 33 to 34 degrees centigrade, followed by other coastal cities of Mombasa in Kenya and Mogadishu in Somalia, where weather people have recording readings of between 31 and 32 degrees centigrade respectively.
This observation by the ‘Daily News’
established that the climate in East Africa’s fastest growing city has
soared to an all time high from Friday when the temperature reached 34
degrees centigrade.
Other cities in the continent where
temperatures have peaked their most high this time are Luanda in Angola
(30-310C) and Khartoum in Sudan with the average of 26 to 310C, contrary
to cities to the north of Africa that are near to the Sahara Desert
where temperatures are between 17- 260C.
The weekly weather forecast for some
cities in northern Africa countries effective January 1 shows that the
temperature in Cairo, Egypt, ranges between 17.7 and 230C; Casablanca
and Marrakesh in Morocco (18-250C) and Algiers in Algeria (18- 210C).
The city of Dar es Salaam has of late
experienced soaring temperatures, with most residents in the country’s
commercial capital complaining of the scorching sun and humid to hot
weather, especially in the past three days.
A survey by this newspaper around the
city has established that most residents prefer staying outdoors, with
some venturing to sleep outside their houses or in their yards in case
of safer and high-density areas like Magomeni and Temeke.
The Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA)
Director General, Dr Agnes Kijazi, was not found yesterday for comment
on the latest weather trend.
But according to the agency’s latest
online update for January, a set-up of climatic systems is expected,
coupled by the anticipated north-easterly winds turning to westerly over
the east African coast areas, which is likely to result into periods of
less wet conditions over eastern sector of the country, especially the
northern coast.
To the Northern Coast of which Dar es
Salaam is covered, TMA in the first 10 days of this year has forecast
the possibility of having normal rains showers and thunderstorms,
especially during second half of the period, also nights are expected to
be warmer.
The Meteorological statement updated in
December last year showed that northern hemisphere pressure systems
intensified significantly while the southern hemisphere high pressure
systems relaxed and allowed the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)
to shift southwards to its current position in the southern hemisphere.
It further noted that in North Coast
Tanga, Coast, Dar es Salaam and Morogoro regions together with Unguja
and Pemba Islands, there was the expectation of rain showers and
isolated thunderstorms over few areas during the second half of the
period.
Rains were also expected to be from ‘normal to below normal’ with a few short periods of heavy rains.
The slightly warm SSTs over the Angola
and Namibia coast is expected to “allow the meridional arm of the ITCZ
to slightly move westward to Congo basin’’, especially during the second
half of the period, where it is forecasted to influence less wet
conditions over most parts of the northern sector of the country during
the period.
It was also noted that during January
2016, the two northern hemisphere high pressure systems are expected to
intensify significantly, while the southern hemisphere systems are
expected to relax allowing the rain making mechanism (ITCZ) to continue
shifting to its climatological extreme position in the southern
hemisphere from its current position
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