By Bisola Adeyemo
Kenya Meteorological Services on Friday, said Nairobi and its environs experience erratic weather from high relative humidity, which is above 70 per cent, wind speed and cloudiness or less sunshine.
This is as the weather transitions from the cold season of June, July and August into the dry month of September before giving way to the short rains of October, November and December.
However, towards the end of last month and into September, the region has been hit with a sporadic weather with mornings being chilly, then suddenly giving way to hot conditions.
Principal Meteorologist in charge of Forecasting, David Koros, explained that what is being experienced is not erratic weather but is the atmosphere, the earth and the ocean trying to reorganise themselves.
Being a transition period, a back and forth between warm and cool mornings is being experienced as the dominant systems establish themselves.
Allafricanews quote him as saying “It’s not erratic weather. It’s simply the transition from the cold season into the dry month of September then the short rains season. Transition has its characteristics, where sometimes it is warm, cold or we get a lot of rainfall here and there,” said Mr Koros.
He pointed out that the cold and intermittent temperature has mostly been experienced over the eastern part of the country in the highlands east of the Rift Valley, including Nairobi, where temperatures have been low.
“It has also been in other parts of the countries but for the western parts, it has been raining, so you find that it has not been as cold as other parts, especially the eastern parts of the country,” he said.