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WARNING: Meteorological Experts Warn Of Massive Killer El Niño In Uganda
Experts from the Uganda National Meteorological Authority (UNMA) together with the IGAD Regional Climate Application and Prediction Centre (ICPAC) based in Nairobi and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have warned that Uganda like other east African countries will face massive El Niño episode from late October 2015 to February 2016.
The Meteorological centres have predicted with a 95% certainty and confirmation before warning the public to that this year’s El Niño is placed among the strongest four since 1950 even stronger than the one of March 2010 which buried over 150 people and a Health Centre in Bududa District and the one of 2007 which flooded many villages in Teso and Lango.
The El Nino will get established late October, reaching its peak in November and persisting upto February 2016. There are high possibilities of massive flooding, landslides, destructive windstorms, lightening, destruction of feeder roads, washing away of small-bridges and culverts, roofs of many village homes getting blown-off and rotting of root crops.
The El Nino will get established late October, reaching its peak in November and persisting upto February 2016. There are high possibilities of massive flooding, landslides, destructive windstorms, lightening, destruction of feeder roads, washing away of small-bridges and culverts, roofs of many village homes getting blown-off and rotting of root crops.
The incidence of infectious diseases such as malaria, cholera dysentery, and acute respiratory infections will raise to outbreak levels in about 33 of the 112 districts. Some Health facilities are likely to be damaged; many pit-latrines will be flooded in the affected districts.
Ugandan women and children walk past submerged homes in an area flooded by heavy rains in Soroti, Uganda, Sept. 18 2007. (Photo by redpepper.co.ug)
The negative effects of the El Niño rains are likely to cause misery to hundreds of households in the following districts namely; Bududa, Bulambuli, Manafwa, Sironko, Mbale, Butaleja, Tororo and Kapchorwa.
Others are Bukwo, Kween, Kasese, Budibugyo, Ntoroko, Kampala, Amolatar, Amuria, Katakwi, Nakapiripirit, Napak, Moroto, Kotido, Kaabong, Kaberamaido, Dokolo, Otuke, Amudat, Kisoro, Kabale, Rukungiri, Kanunugu, Ntungamo, Moyo and Kabarole.
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