{"id":216059,"date":"2025-12-08T09:57:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T07:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-severe-storms-lash-parts-of-zimbabwe-as-msd-warns-of-more-turbulent-weather\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T09:57:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T07:57:52","slug":"zimbabwe-severe-storms-lash-parts-of-zimbabwe-as-msd-warns-of-more-turbulent-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-severe-storms-lash-parts-of-zimbabwe-as-msd-warns-of-more-turbulent-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Severe Storms Lash Parts of Zimbabwe As MSD Warns of More Turbulent Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has warned of continued unstable weather conditions after heavy rains and thunderstorms swept across several provinces over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">In a report issued on Sunday, the MSD said Manicaland Province bore the brunt of the storms with Chipinge recording 97 mm of rainfall, the highest in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Mutema received 62 mm while Bwerudza recorded 42 mm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Other significant rainfall totals&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512010255.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has warned of continued unstable weather conditions after heavy rains and thunderstorms swept across several provinces over the weekend. In a report issued on Sunday, the MSD said Manicaland Province bore the brunt of the storms with Chipinge recording 97 mm of rainfall, the highest in the country. Mutema received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,20208,40658,257,7980,13198,254,16293,19446,6853,10412,4686,421],"class_list":["post-216059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-lash","tag-msd","tag-news","tag-parts","tag-severe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-storms","tag-turbulent","tag-warns","tag-weather","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216059","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=216059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}