Analysis of start, end and length of the rainfall seasons in Mbeya, southwestern highland in Tanzania
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2018-07
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Abstract
Tanzania like any other developing countries is depending on uncertain rainfall for their
subsistence and commercial agriculture. In this paper the start and end of rains for Mbeya
Meteorological Station in Tanzania Mainland was analyzed and critically examined. Data were
kindly given by Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA) during face to face Statistics in Applied
Climatology (fSIAC) workshop which was held at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) the
year 2013 prior to online Course on Statistics in Applied climatology (eSIAC). In this study data
were analyzed using Instat (for windows version 3.3.7) package developed by the Statistical
Services Centre of the University of Reading. The analysis showed that much of rains start early
December all the way to May. There is also 50 percent chance of having below and above the
mean for both total annual rainfall and number of rains, in other word one in two years the total
rains are below means likewise the number of rain days.
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Start, End, Length, Season, Rains, Agriculture