Rainfall Expected In These Kenyan Areas After Ruto's Prayers

The Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD) has announced that rainfall will be expected in some regions in the next few days.

In a statement on Monday, February 27, KMD listed the Lake Victoria Basin and parts of the Rift Valley region as areas that would receive between 10 to 50 millimetres of rainfall.

Also highlighted in the weekly forecast leading into early March are parts of the South and Central Rift Valley that would receive up to 50 millimetres (mm) of rainfall.

A map showing a forecast of the rainfall in the country released by the Kenya Meteorological Department on February 27, 2023. /KENYA METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT

“Rainfall is expected over the Highlands East and West of the Rift Valley, Lake Victoria Basin as well as the South and Central Rift Valley during the first half of the forecast period,” the Met Department tweeted.

The Department however noted that the rest of the country would remain sunny and dry with the maximum temperatures likely to be more than thirty degrees.

It also stated that the nighttime minimum temperatures are likely to be less than ten degrees in some parts of the Rift Valley region.

"Average daytime (maximum) temperatures are likely to be high (more than 30°C) over most parts of the country.

"Average night-time (minimum)temperatures are likely to be low (less than 10°C) over some parts of the Highlands East of the Rift Valley and the North Rift Valley," added KMD.

The update comes two weeks after President William Ruto led the nation to pray and ask for God’s intervention in bringing rain and blessings to the country.

Speaking during an interdenominational Church service at the Nakuru Athletic Club Grounds, Nakuru County on Sunday, February 12, Ruto called upon all Kenyans to turn up at the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi on Tuesday, February 14 to pray for God's intervention during the turbulent times coming during the dry season.

"We pray for rain; we pray that you shall open the heavens for us so that you can have plenty and so that our farms can produce. So that we can have food in plenty and so that the people of Kenya can rejoice.

"Father, we commit our children; we call our children, Heavenly Father, from drugs, we call them to come back home. We call our children from alcoholism; we claim back the future of our nation,” Ruto prayed at the time.