Harmattan
The harmattan season is the period when the rooms are cold, people dive under the cover, move about in sweatshirts, head warmers, boots and other cold protective wears. It is a time of stress for shopkeepers having their stores especially in open spaces such as those along the roadsides. People wake up to wetting the grounds, wiping off dusts on every items in homes, vehicles and offices. Harmattan is the cool dry wind that blows from the northeast or east in the Sahara picking large amount of fine dusts and sand particles as it passes over the Sahara and are then transported hundreds of kilometers towards the Atlantic Ocean. The name is related to the word ‘ harmatta ’ in Twi language, a dialect of the Akan language spoken in southern and central Ghana as well as southeastern Cote D’Ivoire. Harmattan blows during the dry season causing the air temperature to fall, in most places, to as low as 9°C, but can be hot in certain places, soaring to as high as 30°C in the afternoon ...