{"id":222248,"date":"2026-01-29T23:58:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/msd-warn-of-dry-scorching-week-ahead\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T23:58:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:58:05","slug":"msd-warn-of-dry-scorching-week-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/msd-warn-of-dry-scorching-week-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"MSD Warn of Dry, Scorching Week Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[263Chat] The Meteological Services Department (MSD) has issued a nationwide advisory warning of dry and hot weather conditions urging the public to take precautions as daytime temperatures rise sharply across the country.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601290430.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>[263Chat] The Meteological Services Department (MSD) has issued a nationwide advisory warning of dry and hot weather conditions urging the public to take precautions as daytime temperatures rise sharply across the country. Read more on AllAfrica.com South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa Zimbabwe News<\/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":[258,256,7019,11709,40658,257,47714,254,12313,6653,421],"class_list":["post-222248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-dry","tag-msd","tag-news","tag-scorching","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warn","tag-week","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222248","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=222248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222248\/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=222248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}