{"id":193860,"date":"2025-03-18T18:59:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T16:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-heavy-downpours-and-when-to-expect-them-mets-long-rains-review\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T18:59:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T16:59:49","slug":"kenya-heavy-downpours-and-when-to-expect-them-mets-long-rains-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-heavy-downpours-and-when-to-expect-them-mets-long-rains-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Heavy Downpours and When to Expect Them &#8211; Met&#8217;s Long Rains Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD) has cautioned Kenyans to remain alert for potentially heavy downpours and take necessary precautions as the March-April-May (MAM) Long Rains season sets in.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">KMD Director David Gikungu confirmed the onset, noting that rainfall is expected to continue across several parts of the country this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">&#8220;In the forecast for this week, rainfall is expected to continue over several parts of the country,&#8221; said Gikungu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">He further warned that isolated&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503180464.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD) has cautioned Kenyans to remain alert for potentially heavy downpours and take necessary precautions as the March-April-May (MAM) Long Rains season sets in. KMD Director David Gikungu confirmed the onset, noting that rainfall is expected to continue across several parts of the country this week. &#8220;In the forecast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":193861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00470689:1de31733652aedba34d6780f7437188c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,31597,17712,8130,4688,430,9190,50893,257,15767,6399,254],"class_list":["post-193860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-downpours","tag-expect","tag-heavy","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-long","tag-mets","tag-news","tag-rains","tag-review","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00470689:1de31733652aedba34d6780f7437188c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193860","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}