Southern region to receive normal rainfall: Met Dept

MATABELELAND region will experience normal to below normal rainfall in the first and second period of the rainy season, the Meteorological Department said yesterday.

Climate change has resulted in weather extremes, characterised by lengthy drought spells, which have affected most of Matabeleland, in ecological region five which naturally receives low rainfall.

Meteorological Department provincial officer Rodgers Munyira said: “Our rain season is in two parts, we have the first period that is October to December and the second period January to March.

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