This is how Nairobi weather will look like for the next four days
Kenya Meteorological Department has advised told Nairobi residents to brace for cool and cloudy conditions with occasional drizzles or light rains for the next four days.
The advisory comes a day after the city experienced heavy rainfall that caught most residents unawares.
The rain also disrupted events at the ongoing World Under-18 athletics championship at Kasarani stadium.
Speaking to Nairobi News by phone on Thursday, Kenya Meteorological Department deputy director Samuel Mwangi said that the rain experienced on Wednesday evening was not unexpected as it had been captured in their latest forecast, but said that it would not be sustained for a long time as they expect the region to only experience drizzles and light rains at best.
“The heavy rainfall was in our forecast and so it was not something unexpected. This is as a result of normal variations in the weather outlook and may last for a couple of days only and so we might not see a lot of rain but cold, cloudy conditions with only drizzles and light rains and not heavy rains,” said Mr Mwangi.
WATER RATIONING
Nairobi has been grappling with water shortage which forced Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company to start water rationing in the city with the crisis deepening with each passing day as the water levels at Ndakaini Dam, the main water supplier to the city, failing to increase.
The rainfall might have come as a relief to most residents who have gone for days without water but the news from the weatherman might dampen the hopes of the millions of resident in the county.
The weatherman, in its latest seven-day regional forecast released on Monday, July 10 indicated that Nairobi area was expected to experience cool and cloudy conditions with occasional drizzles or light rains and not the heavy rains experienced.
The forecast showed that sunny intervals would be experienced in the morning hours making way for showers in several places in the afternoon with temperatures hovering between 9 and 28 degrees Celsius.
HEAVY RAINS
“We may not see heavy rains until October and the rains which will be experienced might not change much,” said the deputy director.
He warned that occasional prolonged hours of overcast skies (cloudy conditions) resulting to cold and chilly conditions should be expected with a few days expected to turn out to be extremely cold with temperatures falling below 18 degrees Celsius in some areas.
As a matter of immediate concern for residents would be the warning that cases of respiratory diseases like asthma, pneumonia and common colds (flu) were expected to be on the increase due to the expected cool/cold conditions.
The forecast also warned that fog formation leading to poor visibility might also pose dangers to motorists and pedestrians along the Nairobi-Naivasha road, especially along the Kikuyu-Kinungi stretch with the aviation industry in the capital on the checklist as landing at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) may occasionally be made impossible by thick fog and associated very poor visibility leading to diversion of aircrafts to other airports.
