Indicator | Description | Period | Prediction |
Wind | When strong winds blow from the sea (usually from west to east direction) | Rainy season (March-July) | Rain is expected within 1 - 3 days |
Wind | When the wind is blowing from the sea carrying dust (west-east direction) with high intensity of the sun | Rainy season | Rain expected within 3 days; |
Halo (around the sun) | If at sunset there is a red circle around the sun | Rainy season (March-July) | Rain expected within 1 - 3 days |
Sun | If high intensity of sunshine is observed | Rainy season (March-July) | Rain expected within 1 - 7 days |
Sun | High intensity of sunshine and dust-wind blowing (from west to east) is observed | Rainy season | Rain expected within 1 - 2 days |
Bird (Torle, Clamator jacobinus) | Makes a lot of sounds | At the onset of the rainy season (from February on) | Onset of the rainy season is expected in next 1 or 2 weeks |
Bird (Torle, Clamator jacobinus) | Makes a lot of sounds | Rainy season | Rain is expected within 1 - 2 weeks |
Bird (Gbonyu, Ploceus cucullatus | Sings a lot | Rainy season | Rain expected within 1 - 2 days |
Frogs | When frogs start croaking a lot | Rainy season | Rain is expected within 1 - 3 days |
Pigs | When pigs turn the grass around | Rainy season | Rain is expected within 1 day |
Goats | Goats are gathered in the evening and run together | Rainy season | Rain is expected within a day |
Moon | When the moon shadow is on the left side | Rainy season | Rain is expected within 2 weeks inland |
Moon | When the moon shadow is on the right side | Rainy season | Rain is expected within 2 weeks inland in the coastal part |
Moon | When the moon shadow is on the top | Rainy season | Rain is expected within 2 weeks both inland and coastal part |
Moon | When the moon reappears from the west | Rainy season | Rain is expected generally after 3 days |
Moon | If half of the moon is visible | Rainy season | Rain is expected within the next 2 days |
Moon | A red circle (like a rainbow) around the moon | Rainy season | It may rain within the next 3 days |
Worms (Abotele) | Spread all over the grass after a previous rain | After February | It will rain again that same day or within 1 week’s time |
Scorpions | When big black scorpions appear frequently on the farm | Rainy season | More frequent rains event are expected (less dry spells) |
Clouds | A thick cloud appears at the eastern | Rainy season | It will rain on the same day or |
Ants | Carry their food or eggs to the holes | Rainy season | Rain is expected within next the two days |
Dew | If from midnight to the following morning there is a lot of dew falling | No rain is expected the next day (sunny day) |