Farai Dziva|The wet spell is expected to persist until next week.

This was revealed by the
Meteorological Services Department.

In a statement to a state run paper, MSD’s Mrs Gopo said:
Rainfall was being experienced in most parts of the country since Wednesday 8 January 2020.

Thunderstorms (are) expected till Monday 20 January and heavy downpours in places. Thus there is a potential of flash flooding in flood prone areas.

There is a high pressure system which is expected to be ridging in from Friday night into Saturday causing the convergence in the country and that’s on Saturday and Sunday, we should expect an increase in the rainfall activity.

Even though we have been receiving the rains, we are also expecting an increase in terms of the total amounts of rainfall in most parts of the country especially in the eastern, southern and northern parts of the country.”