{"id":3680,"date":"2026-04-17T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=3680"},"modified":"2026-04-17T19:12:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:12:47","slug":"zambia-meteorological-department-zmd-weather-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=3680","title":{"rendered":"ZAMBIA METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT (ZMD) WEATHER UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">THE Zambia Meteorological Department (ZMD) says most parts of the country have a 60 percent chance of receiving above-normal rainfall from 14th to 20th April 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This is according to the latest 14 days rainfall forecast issued by the ZMD.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The forecast for the 14th to 20th April, 2026, indicates a 60% or greater chance of above-normal rainfall&nbsp;across most parts of the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The rainfall forecast further showed that from the 21st to 27th April, much of the country may experience below-normal rainfall, with isolated cases of above-normal rainfall, especially over the western districts of Western Province and the extreme northern parts of Zambia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">During the period from the 21st to 27th April, much of the country may experience below-normal rainfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">With isolated cases of above-normal rainfall, especially&nbsp;over the western districts of Western Province and the extreme northern parts of Zambia.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Zambia Meteorological Department (ZMD) says most parts of the country have a 60 percent chance of receiving above-normal rainfall from 14th to 20th April 2026. This is according to the latest 14 days rainfall forecast issued by the ZMD.&nbsp; The forecast for the 14th to 20th April, 2026, indicates a 60% or greater chance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latestnewscentre","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3681,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions\/3681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}