{"id":219345,"date":"2026-01-05T23:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-msd-warns-of-more-heavy-rains-as-thunderstorms-sweep-across-zim\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T23:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:00:53","slug":"zimbabwe-msd-warns-of-more-heavy-rains-as-thunderstorms-sweep-across-zim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-msd-warns-of-more-heavy-rains-as-thunderstorms-sweep-across-zim\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: MSD Warns of More Heavy Rains As Thunderstorms Sweep Across Zim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has warned that unsettled weather conditions are set to continue after widespread thunderstorms brought heavy rain to parts of the country including Harare and surrounding provinces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">In a weather update, the MSD said intense rainfall was recorded in several locations within a 24-hour period with Harare Southerton receiving 100 millimetres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Other high totals were measured in Murehwa (95mm), Harare Mufakose (92mm), Chinhoyi (74mm) and Henderson (66mm).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align:...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601050431.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 that unsettled weather conditions are set to continue after widespread thunderstorms brought heavy rain to parts of the country including Harare and surrounding provinces. In a weather update, the MSD said intense rainfall was recorded in several locations within a 24-hour period with Harare Southerton receiving 100 millimetres. [&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":[258,256,8130,40658,257,15767,254,9412,53327,6853,6923,4686,421],"class_list":["post-219345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-heavy","tag-msd","tag-news","tag-rains","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sweep","tag-thunderstorms","tag-warns","tag-zim","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219345","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=219345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219345\/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=219345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}