{"id":7123,"date":"2019-12-11T08:42:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T05:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7123"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:45","slug":"weatherman-links-hostile-climate-to-cyclone-belna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/12\/11\/weatherman-links-hostile-climate-to-cyclone-belna\/","title":{"rendered":"Weatherman Links Hostile Climate To Cyclone Belna"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenya is experiencing unfavourable weather conditions attributed to a cyclone named Belna in the South Western Indian Ocean, which is indirectly influencing the climate in the country, the Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD) has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Visibility <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The KMD has also warned of strong winds on the Coast until Friday, December 13, alerting residents and beach-goers to be on the lookout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe wind speed over the Indian ocean along the Kenya coastline is 2.5 to 10m\/s with wave heights of 0.6 to 1.5 metres,\u201d said KMD Director Stella Aura.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms Aura said in a press release yesterday that the region is expected to receive heavy rainfall with moderate visibility during the forecast period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She, however, dismissed claims that a cyclone named Belna is headed towards the Kenyan coast, explaining that Kenya\u2019s location along the Equator does not allow it to be hit by the cyclone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.nation.co.ke\/news\/Weatherman-links-hostile-climate-to-ocean-whirlwind\/1950946-5381192-l716o\/index.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya is experiencing unfavourable weather conditions attributed to a cyclone named Belna in the South Western Indian Ocean, which is indirectly influencing the climate in the country, the Kenya Meteorological&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7124,"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-7123","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\/7123","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=7123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}