{"id":81272,"date":"2015-01-11T13:48:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T13:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=81272"},"modified":"2015-01-11T15:48:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T15:48:49","slug":"harmattan-affects-air-travel-northern-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=81272","title":{"rendered":"Harmattan affects air travel in Northern Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The severity of the Harmattan weather is affecting air travel in the Northern Region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The poor visibility caused by the weather is preventing flights from landing at the Tamale Airport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Nyv5N89AepB2uqMxZsNH5Qps8DYLdAwU&#8221;]The Harmattan weather has no respect for anybody because President John Mahama himself was unable to land in Tamale on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The Presidential flight carrying President Mahama<\/span> and his entourage to Tamale was compelled to turn back to Kumasi for safe landing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Mahama who was en route to the North to join the people of <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/01\/11\/dagbon-peace-talks-resume-3\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Dagbon in this year\u2019s Damba festival<\/strong><\/a><\/span> held at Yendi had to continue his journey by road to Tamale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apart from the poor visibility, people are spotted with cracked lips and cracked feet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Majority of residents are compelled to wear protective clothing such as pullovers and jackets and covering their feet with long socks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/harmattan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81275\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/harmattan.jpg\" alt=\"harmattan\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/harmattan.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/harmattan-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even mad people on the streets of Tamale are not spared and one of them was spotted wearing a full empty fertilizer sack to withstand the weather.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_14521.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81276\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_14521.jpg\" alt=\"???????????????????????????????\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_14521.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_14521-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Second hand clothing sellers in Tamale have taken advantage of the weather and are cashing in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/used-cloths.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81278\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/used-cloths.jpg\" alt=\"used cloths\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/used-cloths.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/used-cloths-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What is more worrying about the weather is how basic school pupils are going to cope with the weather when school resumes on Tuesday January 13.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The most affected will be pupils of deprived communities where schools under trees are rampant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81277\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/used-cloths-2.jpg\" alt=\"used cloths (2)\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/used-cloths-2.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/used-cloths-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, an Ethiopian cargo plane <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/01\/10\/ethiopian-cargo-airline-crash-lands-at-kotoka-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>crash-landed at the Kotoka International Airport<\/strong><\/a><\/span> in Accra on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although the cause of the accident is not yet known some officials of\u00a0the Airport have attributed it to bad weather.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The severity of the Harmattan weather is affecting air travel in the Northern Region. The poor visibility caused by the weather is preventing flights from landing at the Tamale Airport. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Nyv5N89AepB2uqMxZsNH5Qps8DYLdAwU&#8221;]The Harmattan weather has no respect for anybody because President John Mahama himself was unable to land in Tamale on Saturday. 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