The dry hazy weather condition which is being
experienced in the country is not an indicator of the harmattan season.
It is rather a temporary weather condition which is the result of atmospheric factors and changes.
Mr. Amos Narh, Principal Meteorologist in-charge of the Meteorological Services Department of Kotoka International Airport, told the Ghana News Agency in an interview that the hazy situation was initially at the upper levels of the atmosphere.
He said the moisture that accompanied last Saturday's down pour, overturned the haze and brought it down to the ground, resulting in hazy and dry weather conditions.
Explaining further, Mr. Narh said the weather condition, was a subsidence, adding that whenever weather conditions resulted in such a haze
forming at the upper levels of the atmosphere, it took another weather system to bring it down to the earth.
Touching on last Saturday's down-pour, Mr. Narh said the rainfall was not an indication of the rainy season, adding that atmospheric conditions
that precipitated rainfall were still absent.
He said there could however, be more rains before the actual arrival of the rainy season because there was a lot of moisture in the atmosphere.
Mr. Narh gave some statistics for last Saturday's downpour as Accra-14.0 millimeters(mm), Tema-28.5mm, Saltpond-0.8mm, Koforidua-1.5mm and
Sunyani-3.5mm.
The rest are Ho-13.0mm, Abetifi-3.3mm and Takoradi-5.3mm.