{"id":200209,"date":"2025-06-16T01:30:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T23:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-farmers-warned-against-extreme-cold\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T01:30:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T23:30:56","slug":"namibia-farmers-warned-against-extreme-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-farmers-warned-against-extreme-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Farmers Warned Against Extreme Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em>The Namibia Meteorological Service says the current cold front sweeping across the country will largely affect livestock.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Chief forecaster Odillo Kgobetsi says the cold front came from Cape Town, pushing icy air into Namibia, causing overnight lows reaching zero degrees or below in many regions, with daytime highs struggling to cross the 20-degree mark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">&#8220;There was a lot of cloudiness earlier this week, which kept the temperatures slightly warmer because of the blanket effect, but once these clouds&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506120645.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Namibia Meteorological Service says the current cold front sweeping across the country will largely affect livestock. Chief forecaster Odillo Kgobetsi says the cold front came from Cape Town, pushing icy air into Namibia, causing overnight lows reaching zero degrees or below in many regions, with daytime highs struggling to cross the 20-degree mark. &#8220;There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,9869,10411,3030,4706,724,257,254,12273],"class_list":["post-200209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cold","tag-extreme","tag-farmers","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warned"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200209","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=200209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}