{"id":232881,"date":"2026-05-10T16:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-high-chance-of-el-nino-raises-fears-for-zimbabwes-rainy-season\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T16:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:18:06","slug":"zimbabwe-high-chance-of-el-nino-raises-fears-for-zimbabwes-rainy-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-high-chance-of-el-nino-raises-fears-for-zimbabwes-rainy-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: High Chance of El Ni\u00f1o Raises Fears for Zimbabwe&#8217;s Rainy Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The Meteorological Services Department says there is a high probability that Zimbabwe could experience an El Ni\u00f1o weather pattern during the 2026\/27 rainy season raising fears of below-normal rainfall and possible drought conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">In a preliminary statement, the department said global climate forecasting centres were indicating an 88% to 94% chance of an El Ni\u00f1o event developing later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Historically, El Ni\u00f1o conditions in Zimbabwe have often been associated with reduced rainfall,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605080389.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 says there is a high probability that Zimbabwe could experience an El Ni\u00f1o weather pattern during the 2026\/27 rainy season raising fears of below-normal rainfall and possible drought conditions. In a preliminary statement, the department said global climate forecasting centres were indicating an 88% to 94% chance of an El Ni\u00f1o [&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":[258,256,12844,5140,6184,257,25815,11233,5234,8098,254,4686,421,7726],"class_list":["post-232881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chance","tag-fears","tag-high","tag-news","tag-nino","tag-rainy","tag-raises","tag-season","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232881","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=232881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232881\/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=232881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}