{"id":186529,"date":"2024-12-14T01:27:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T23:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-intense-tropical-cyclone-chido-flash-update-no-1-as-of-13-december-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-12-14T01:27:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T23:27:41","slug":"mozambique-intense-tropical-cyclone-chido-flash-update-no-1-as-of-13-december-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-intense-tropical-cyclone-chido-flash-update-no-1-as-of-13-december-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Intense Tropical Cyclone Chido &#8211; Flash Update No. 1, As of 13 December 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><strong>HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tropical Cyclone Chido is expected to make landfall in Pemba (Cabo Delgado) early on 15 December as an Intense Tropical Cyclone.<\/li>\n<li>With heavy rains of up to 200mm in 24 hours and winds of up 120 km\/h, Cyclone Chido has a similar intensity to Cyclones Gombe (2022) and Cyclone Freddy (2023).<\/li>\n<li>Some 1.7 million people are exposed, including 1 million people in Cabo Delgado at risk of winds exceeding 120 km\/h.<\/li>\n<li>The National Institute for Disaster Management (INGD) is prepositioning stocks and&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412130537.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIGHLIGHTS Tropical Cyclone Chido is expected to make landfall in Pemba (Cabo Delgado) early on 15 December as an Intense Tropical Cyclone. With heavy rains of up to 200mm in 24 hours and winds of up 120 km\/h, Cyclone Chido has a similar intensity to Cyclones Gombe (2022) and Cyclone Freddy (2023). Some 1.7 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":186530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660888:34706cef1a471b84a0fa24ff33e440f7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,38384,12466,6939,16543,9947,4704,682,257,254,15698,6320],"class_list":["post-186529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chido","tag-cyclone","tag-december","tag-flash","tag-intense","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tropical","tag-update"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660888:34706cef1a471b84a0fa24ff33e440f7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}