As the nation prepares for the 2018/19 farming season, permanent
secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Water and Climate, Ambassador
Grace Mutandiro, has revealed that the 2018/19 rainfall season points to
an El Nino effect.
In her opening remarks at the Meteorological Services Department
National Climate Outlook Forum currently underway in Harare, Ambassador
Mutandiro said 62 percent of the El Nino years have been characterised
by reduced rainfall activity.
“However, it is not always the case that El Nino will result in a
drought. Experts will deliberate on the outcome and Government and other
key stakeholders will be directed accordingly,” she said.
El Nino is the warming of ocean currents off the South American coast
around December and causes below normal rain patterns and above normal
temperatures in specific areas around the world and Southern Africa
often gets hit hard by either drought or flooding. Herald
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