The long rains may be delayed until early next month, the Meteorological Department warned yesterday. The weatherman blamed a tropical cyclone that caused in havoc in Mozambique last week, for sucking in moisture that would resulted in rains for Kenya. “The spatial and temporal distribution of the March-May 2019 seasonal rainfall was expected to be good over most of the Western sector ... However, the existence of tropical cyclones is likely to result in poor distribution even over the Western sector of the country,” Aura said. "Due to the cyclone, the rainfall belt is coming from the south, slowly going up,” he said.

Source: The Star March 19, 2019 06:22 UTC