During the harmattan season, the Ghana Meteorological Agency is advising drivers to drive carefully.

As per Joseph Portuphy, the Agency’s Head of Forecasting, the nation has not yet encountered a particularly severe harmattan season.

Mr. Portuphy stressed that during this time, drivers should exercise caution and adopt safe driving practices.

“The worst of the season is yet to come. This is just the preliminaries because visibility has not dropped yet. We will get to a time when visibility will drop to 700 meters, so drivers must be very cautious. We expect a lot of fog in the morning, and when you get fog, you cannot see ahead of you. So, this is the time we should be using our fog lights in the morning and also reduce your speed so that when there is an object ahead of you, you can easily avoid it.”

Senior Meteorologist Frederick Cudjoe also urged Ghanaians to adopt the appropriate safety measures to avoid mishaps during this season.

“We advise that when visibility becomes very poor, especially early in the morning and at dawn, motorists should take necessary precautions, especially by using their fog lights and also driving within the speed limit. Also, people who go to farms, we advise that they take the necessary precautions to prevent any fire outbreak.”

“And then also, since we will be having those particles in the atmosphere, we advise that maybe we can be putting on our nose masks during this period to avoid taking in a lot of that particle into our respiratory systems because we are realizing that we have the dry continental wind invading our country. We expect this condition to last, especially for the entire period of December right from now to the end of December, which will mean that we are going to be getting a lot of this dryness coming from the Sahara and the Sahel regions into our country. Also, the dust conditions will be accompanied by winds coming from the northern part of the continent into our country.”

Source: Marzuuq Issah | Ghana360news.com