Head of the Central Analysis and Forecasting Office at the Ghana Meteorological Agency, Felicity Ahafianyo, has announced that thunderstorms and lightning are expected across the country.

She said that the expected thunderstorm will likely have a thunderous clap, reduced visibility, and damaging wind, affecting weak structures and dead branches on trees.

Speaking in an interview on Joy FM’s Midday News, she explained that the storms witnessed in parts of the country on Wednesday are “rainstorms that usually affect us from March to May.”

“From May ending to sometime in August, we have the normal rains without the lightning and damaging effect, so from now it has started over the coastal stretch we are anticipating thunderstorms and lightning,” she stated.

She, therefore, advised people with weak structures to renovate them to avoid being affected by the storms.

She also urged people living in low-land areas to get a “sandbag or try to relocate to a safer place.”

The Central Analysis and Forecasting Office Director advised motorists to drive at a slower speed of 20 to 30 km/h on rainy days.

She also urged people to check the weather forecast before stepping out.

This follows Metrological Agency pointing out that it has detected two heavy storms heading for the country – one from the East and the other from the North.

According to GMet, the storms will be accompanied by strong winds that damage weak buildings and the loss of tree branches. In the South, lightning and flash floods are also expected.

Felicity Ahafianyo noted that the detected heavy storms will hit the country at different times.

She said that the storm had already hit the country's northern part, “and it is exiting into Côte d'Ivoire and then parts of Mali.”

“The Southern sector had hit us already, and Greater Accra is in it. Those in Afloa through to Ga East are already in it, and then it is going to move into Central and then later to Western,” she added.

She further predicted that the storm is going to “reproduce another top-up or localise system over Ashanti, Eastern, Bono and its environs”, adding that they [Ashanti, Eastern, Bono and its environs] are expected to have the storms around 2, 3, 4 pm the on Wednesday.