{"id":1060784,"date":"2022-04-19T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/19\/photos-hailstorms-sweep-across-central-rift-region\/"},"modified":"2022-04-19T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T12:45:00","slug":"photos-hailstorms-sweep-across-central-rift-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/19\/photos-hailstorms-sweep-across-central-rift-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Hailstorms sweep across Central Rift region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\"><strong>Curious residents of Kiptagich in Nakuru County play with hailstones on &nbsp;the road side at a section of Olenguruone \u2013 Kiptagich \u2013 Bomet road &nbsp;at Kiptagich area in Kuresoi South on March 19, 2022.<\/strong> [Kipsang Joseph,Standard]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">It has largely been a dry season in most parts of the country over the past months.\n<\/p>\n<p>The situation has resulted in drought and food shortages that have disrupted livelihoods following reduced harvests and livestock deaths.\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/bh5papok7EUeQFvB0MG3FNSRTwZPWNVctTSOGO1b.jpg\" alt width=\"800\" height=\"500\"><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\">&nbsp;<strong>Parts of the Central rift region experienced hailstones following a heavy downpour in the area on March 19, 2022.<\/strong> [Kipsang Joseph,Standard]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In these areas, experts have warned of a looming food crisis. <\/p>\n<p>In some regions bordering the Mau forest in Nakuru and Bomet Counties, hailstorms have rocked the area.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/lfdxVudYnY4YVkPIFbKZ33aExB8NBMjxvRxpjKXS.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><h4 class=\"read\"><span>KEEP READING<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p>The areas have been experiencing a lot of rainfall in the past weeks.\n<\/p>\n<p>This has been characterised by hailstorms that have \u2018painted\u2019 the farms and roads white.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/opIwxlFWpRytoGsvCX5fu7SYD6F4oHzHRuETw7rj.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>Photographs taken in the midst of hailstorms in these places can be mistaken for a European winter, which is catastrophic to tea farms.\n<\/p>\n<p>While tea is one of the most important beverage crops in the world and a major revenue earner in the country, it has been severely affected by these severe weather conditions that have been likened to impacts of climate change, among them hail, frost and drought.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/tSAOQ9zLYWKohbKfpsR199RMcpaLCUqH6Wfu4aj1.jpg\">\n<\/p>\n<p>Studies linked annual revenue losses to hailstorms and have greatly impacted on tea growing areas despite lack of recovery plans in place after the damage.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch massive&nbsp;hailstorms&nbsp;are catastrophic to tea. It makes the leaves to wither and eventually dry up and eventually nothing is left for picking,\u201d Jacob Korir, a tea farmer and resident says. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/re5CEfyXBwhCfffM21lumak2nt1EKYUT5DdAjOJb.jpg\">\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;In January this year, similar phenomenon of tea farmers counting losses after hailstorms were reported in Tindiret, Nandi hills and parts of Aldai in Nandi County.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/HXcj6zAtIi02rZSTkwt8Ojc9fqcwHjlMcZkQd1Od.jpg\">\n<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Photos by Kipsang Joseph,Standard<\/strong><\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<b class=\"m-2\">Share this story<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p><h4 class=\"read\"><span>RELATED VIDEOS<\/span><\/h4><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curious residents of Kiptagich in Nakuru County play with hailstones on &nbsp;the road side at a section of Olenguruone \u2013 Kiptagich \u2013 Bomet road &nbsp;at Kiptagich area in Kuresoi South on March 19, 2022. [Kipsang Joseph,Standard] It has largely been a dry season in most parts of the country over the past months. 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