{"id":217660,"date":"2025-12-22T10:27:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-msd-urges-caution-as-heavy-downpours-expected-across-provinces\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T10:27:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:27:57","slug":"zimbabwe-msd-urges-caution-as-heavy-downpours-expected-across-provinces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-msd-urges-caution-as-heavy-downpours-expected-across-provinces\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: MSD Urges Caution As Heavy Downpours Expected Across Provinces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has warned of widespread thunderstorms and heavy rainfall across much of the country, urging the public to take precautions as unstable weather conditions persist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">In its latest weather update, the MSD said abundant moisture over Zimbabwe triggered widespread thunderstorms on Saturday, with significant rainfall recorded in several areas. Mutasa received 66mm of rain, while Esigodini recorded 55mm. Other notable falls were reported in Binga (52mm), Gokwe&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512220086.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>Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has warned of widespread thunderstorms and heavy rainfall across much of the country, urging the public to take precautions as unstable weather conditions persist. In its latest weather update, the MSD said abundant moisture over Zimbabwe triggered widespread thunderstorms on Saturday, with significant rainfall recorded in several areas. Mutasa received 66mm [&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":[258,256,8279,31597,6474,8130,40658,257,19410,254,6810,4686,421],"class_list":["post-217660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-caution","tag-downpours","tag-expected","tag-heavy","tag-msd","tag-news","tag-provinces","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217660","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=217660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217660\/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=217660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}