The Gambia Annual Climate Report 2018

June 1, 2018
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The Climate of the country or locality therein is the synthesis of the day to day evaluation of meteorological elements that had affected it.

Various methods are used to represent Climate such as diagrams, graphs, etc including the frequency of weather types.

Climate data are usually expressed in terms of an individual calendrer month, season, year and or determined over a period of at least 30 years enough to ensure that representative values are obtained.

The main elements treated in this report are temperature, rainfall and solar radiation with spectacular weather phenomena such as Thunderstorm with its associated Cloud to Ground (CG) lighting activities.