{"id":10749,"date":"2024-03-09T11:04:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T11:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/weatherman-warns-of-heavy-rainfall-in-select-kenyan-counties-from-saturday\/"},"modified":"2024-03-09T11:04:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T11:04:12","slug":"weatherman-warns-of-heavy-rainfall-in-select-kenyan-counties-from-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/weatherman-warns-of-heavy-rainfall-in-select-kenyan-counties-from-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Weatherman Warns of Heavy Rainfall in Select Kenyan Counties From Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, March 9 \u2013 The Meteorological Department has issued an alert warning of heavy rainfall expected in select counties from Saturday to Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In a notice released on Friday, the Director of the Kenya Meteorological Department stated that the affected areas would primarily be in the Highlands, west of the Rift Valley, the Lake Victoria Basin, and the Rift Valley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRainfall is anticipated over a few areas in the South Rift Valley, the Lake Victoria Basin, the Highlands East and West of the Rift Valley, the South Eastern lowland, and the Coast,\u201d the department stated.<\/p>\n<p>Counties such as Nyandarua, Laikipia, Nyeri, Kirinyaga, Murang\u2019a, Kiambu, Meru, Embu, Tharaka, and Nairobi are expected to experience maximum temperatures exceeding 30\u00b0C during the daytime.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mombasa, Tana River, Kilifi, Lamu, and Kwale Counties are likely to see minimum temperatures of more than 24\u00b0C.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis forecast should be used alongside the daily (24-hour) forecast issued by this Department. County-specific forecasts are available from the offices of respective County Directors of Meteorology,\u201d the department advised.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Kitui, Makueni, Machakos, Kajiado, and Taita Taveta Counties are expected to experience high daytime temperatures exceeding 30\u00b0C.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, March 9 \u2013 The Meteorological Department has issued an alert warning of heavy rainfall expected in select counties from Saturday to Wednesday. In a notice released on Friday, the Director of the Kenya Meteorological Department stated that the affected areas would primarily be in the Highlands, west of the Rift Valley, the Lake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}