{"id":5703,"date":"2019-10-02T09:37:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T06:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5703"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:34","slug":"rare-windstorm-hits-parts-of-kenya-causes-power-outages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/02\/rare-windstorm-hits-parts-of-kenya-causes-power-outages\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Windstorm Hits Parts Of Kenya, Causes Power Outages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Daily Nation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A rare windstorm swept across Kenya and some parts of Tanzania Tuesday afternoon catching many unawares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The heavy windstorm\ncaused power outages in the capital Nairobi, Murang\u2019a in central, Thika and\nMachakos towns on the outskirts of Nairobi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meteorologists said\nthe windstorm marks the start of short rain season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya Meteorological\nDepartment deputy director Samwel Mwangi explained that the wind is as a result\nof unstable air and is likely to give showers and possibly thunderstorm in\nseveral parts of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are having a bit\nof stormy weather all over. It is coming in with a bit of rains here and there.\nThere is strong winds and where it has not rained for a while, we have seen\ndust being carried around by the strong winds,\u201d Mr Mwangi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The weatherman urged\nKenyans to be careful as the strong wind is likely to blow away roofs,\nbillboards or rocks. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/news\/ea\/Intense-windstorm-sweeps-across-kenya-tanzania\/4552908-5294864-136r8wc\/index.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation A rare windstorm swept across Kenya and some parts of Tanzania Tuesday afternoon catching many unawares. The heavy windstorm caused power outages in the capital Nairobi, Murang\u2019a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}