By Franklin ASARE-DONKOH
The Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet) has cautioned Ghanaians to prepare for an intense Harmattan season throughout December 2023.
The Agency attributed the intense Harmattan to the country’s arrival of a dry continental wind.
Ghana is currently experiencing dry and dusty winds, a characteristic feature of the Harmattan season.
Speaking in an interview on Thursday, 14, 2023, a Senior Meteorologist at the Agency, Mr. Frederick Cudjoe, urged Ghanaians to take necessary precautions to prevent accidents during this season.
“We advise that when visibility becomes very poor especially early in the morning and then at dawn, motorists should take necessary precautions, especially by using their fog lights and also driving within the speed limit. Also, for people who go to farms, we advise that they take the necessary precautions to prevent any fire outbreak.
And then since we will be having those particles in the atmosphere, we advise that maybe we can put on our nose masks during this period to avoid taking in a lot of those particles into our respiratory systems because we are realising that we have the dry continental wind invading our country, and we expect this condition to last, especially for the entire period of December right from now to the end of December which will mean that we are going to be getting a lot of this dryness coming from the Sahara and the Sahel regions into our country. And then also the dust conditions will be accompanied by winds which are coming from the northern part of the continent into our country,” the Senior Meteorologist emphasized.