Tanzania’s weather authorities issue alert over strong winds, large ocean waves

Tanzania’s weather authorities on Sunday issued an alert over impending strong winds and large ocean waves along the Indian Ocean coastline.

The Tanzania Meteorological Authority (TMA) said in a terse statement entitled “Five days severe weather impact-based forecasts” that strong winds reaching 40 km per hour and large ocean waves reaching two meters high were expected in some areas along the coast of the Indian Ocean.

The statement mentioned areas to be hit by the strong winds and large ocean waves as Lindi, Mtwara, Tanga, Dar es Salaam and Coast regions, and Zanzibar’s islands of Unguja and Pemba and warned of impacts including disruption of some marine activities.