Biruk Girma
6 April 2008
Addis Ababa — The National Metrology Agency(NMA) predicts better rainfall during the next two months of the Belg season in most of the country's regions which it hopes will compensate for the unusually two dry months of the belg season.
The Belg season, under normal circumstance, is a primary source of rainfall to significant parts of the country, an agrarian economy heavily dependent on rainfall agriculture.
Eastern Tigray, Eastern Amhara, Afar, Middle Ethiopia, Eastern South Oromia, North SNNPR and most of the Somali regions get their fair share of rainfall during the season.
The agency said west and south west regions of the country would enjoy a comfortable amount of rainfall both in terms of intensity and distribution as compared to the rest regions of the country.
The agency called two months ago for necessary precautions aimed at countering water shortages.
Based on predictions of various international metrology centers, the agency said the existing lower sea level heat and Lanina existence around Eastern part of the tropical pacific ocean has 85% chance to continue.
Owing to increased sea level heat around south West Indian Ocean cooling gradually and to the sea level heat condition of the middle Mediterranean sea, which was below the normal become normal gradually yield adequate coverage of rain in the remaining two months of the belg season, the agency said in a statement.
The 'Belg' season, one of the three seasons, runs from mid February to mid May, according to Ethiopian agricultural calendar.
It is a secondary rainfall season for Eastern parts of the country. Some parts of the country in the regions of South - West and West get rain at the last months of the season.
The agency said it would keep the media and the public up breast on latest developments as regards to weather condition in the country.
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