SOUTHERN African countries have been urged to prepare for the worst for the 2017/18 rainfall season, after a regional forecast released over the weekend showed there will be a drought in the first half of the season and floods in the second.
According to an outlook released by the Southern African Development Committee (Sadc), Climate Services Centre (CSC) at a climate forum here, there will be normal to below normal rains from October to November and normal to above normal rains from January to March 2018.
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"Normal to below normal rains expected this season", The Chronicle, viewed 28 August 2017, http://www.chronicle.co.zw/normal-to-below-normal-rains-expected-this-season/