{"id":246191,"date":"2026-10-02T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-heavy-rainfall-expected-across-kenya-as-met-warns-of-above-average-october-rains\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T07:00:09","slug":"kenya-heavy-rainfall-expected-across-kenya-as-met-warns-of-above-average-october-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-heavy-rainfall-expected-across-kenya-as-met-warns-of-above-average-october-rains\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Heavy Rainfall Expected Across Kenya As Met Warns of Above-Average October Rains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Nairobi \u2014 Kenya is expected to experience above-average rainfall in several parts of the country during October, with the Kenya Meteorological Department warning of heavy rainfall events in various areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The weather agency said above-average rainfall, with higher probabilities, is expected in Kwale, Mombasa, Kilifi, Lamu and Mandera counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Parts of Taita Taveta, Tana River, Garissa and Wajir are also expected to receive above-average rainfall during the month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" \/a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610020073.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Kenya is expected to experience above-average rainfall in several parts of the country during October, with the Kenya Meteorological Department warning of heavy rainfall events in various areas. The weather agency said above-average rainfall, with higher probabilities, is expected in Kwale, Mombasa, Kilifi, Lamu and Mandera counties. Parts of Taita Taveta, Tana River, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":246192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[32279,258,256,6474,8130,4688,430,11871,257,11113,12511,15767,254,6853],"class_list":["post-246191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-aboveaverage","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-expected","tag-heavy","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-met","tag-news","tag-october","tag-rainfall","tag-rains","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246191","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}