By Femi Akinola
A two day rare heavy rainfall has been experienced in the Southern Morocco’s desert and left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes.
The rainfall nourished some of the desert’s most drought -stricken regions with more water than many had seen in decades in thedesert town of Merzougha, near Rachidia, Southeastern Morocco.
Southern Morocco’s desert is regarded as one among the most arid places in the world, the area rarely experience rain in late summer.
The Moroccan government said the two day heavy rainfall exceeded yearly averages in several areas that get an average of less thn 250mm annually.
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According to the report, in Tagounite, a village about 450 kilometres south of the capital, Rabat, more than 10mm rainfall was recorded in a 24 hour period.
” The storms left striking imges of bountiful water gushing through the Sahra sands amid castles and desert flora.
”It’s been 30 t0 50 years since we’ve had this much rain in such a short space of time,” said Houssine Youabeb of Morocco’s General Directorate of Meteorology.
The reported noted that six consecutive years of drought hve posed challenges for much of Morocco, forcing farmers to leave fileds fallow and cities and villages to ration water consumption.
The region’s dammed reservoirs reported refilled at record rates throughout September but observers said it is unclear how the September’s rains will go towards alleviating drought in that part of Africa.
