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Met Dept issues heavy rains alert
HEAVY rains are expected across much of the country for the next seven days from today to Wednesday next week, the Meteorological Services Department forecasts, as the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone ...Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 05:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Met Dept warns of heavy rains
The Government has activated emergency response mechanisms countrywide after the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) issued an alert for heavy rains and strong winds in parts of Manicaland, Masho...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 05:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Rains expected this week: Met Dept
ZIMBABWE is set to start receiving heavy rainfall beginning this week, the Meteriological Services Department (MSD) has said.MSD agro meteorologist in charge of season forecasting, Benjamin Kw...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:51hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Rainfall intensity to decrease: Met dept
RAINFALL frequency and intensity will be reduced countrywide as the 2020 to 2021 rainfall season is heading towards its end in April, the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has said. However, th...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Met Dept warns of '7-day destructive rains'
THE Meteorological Service Department (MSD) has predicted heavy and destructive rains for a seven-day period across the country until Wednesday. The rains started on Thursday spreading across ...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Met Dept warns of flash floods
THE Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has warned the public to take necessary precautions as it anticipates heavy rains that could cause flash flooding in certain areas across the country....Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 06:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Met Dept warns of countrywide flooding
FLASH FLOODS are expected countrywide this week as the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has warned of thunderstorms and heavy rains. The department advised resumption of insecticide sp...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 05:53hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Midlands, Bulawayo to receive rains: Met Dept
The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has warned people in some parts of Bulawayo, Midlands and Matabeleland provinces of isolated thunderstorms which will be experienced later today. T...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Met Dept calls for use of nuclear technology
Zimbabwe's Meteorological Service Department (MSD) acting director Rebecca Manzou has urged nations to use technologies meant to detect nuclear activities for alternative purposes, particularly season...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 07:06hrs | | by Staf reporter
Brace for more cold and rain warns Met dept
THE Meteorological Services Department has urged the public to brace for at least two more days of biting cold and rain.Temperatures dropped from Sunday evening across the Southern region with...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 13:12hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Cold weather kills 12
TWELEVE people have died of common cold and influenza in the country this year while 9 962 cases of the diseases have been reported in one week countrywide.According to the recent weekly surve...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:49hrs | 2 | by Staff rpeorter
Met dept predicts heavy rains
THE Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has predicted more rainfall in most parts of the country with the possibility of localised heavy downpours.This comes at a time when hope had been ...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Met Dept warns of thunderstorms
The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has warned of thunderstorms in some parts of the country today and tomorrow. In a statement yesterday, MSD said the thunderstorms will occur in Mat...Published: 01 Feb 2018 at 05:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Met Dept warns of thunderstorms today
The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has warned of scattered thunderstorms today in some parts of the country and urged people to take precautionary measures. Such measures include avo...Published: 24 Nov 2017 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Met Dept warns of extreme weather
The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) yesterday warned the country will experience the coldest weather so far this year with temperatures expected to fall to seven degrees celsius from yesterda...Published: 19 Aug 2017 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Met dept warns people to watch out for earthquake aftershocks
THE Meteorological Services Department yesterday warned that aftershocks of an earthquake that shook Botswana on Monday night and felt in many parts of Zimbabwe can damage buildings and injure peo...Published: 05 Apr 2017 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Another flood warning issued
The Meteorological Services Department has predicted more heavy rains until the 21st of this month, which can lead to potential flooding in most parts of the country.The head of public wea...Published: 13 Dec 2016 at 19:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Record high temperatures hit Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe experienced extremely high temperatures yesterday, with some areas breaking records that were set as far back as the 1960s. Some showers are expected in southern parts of the coun...Published: 18 Oct 2016 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe no longer safe from earthquakes'
Zimbabwe has long been considered a haven from earthquakes because the central region of the country is regarded as stable.But Thursday's tremors that shook Chipinge, south east of Zimbabw...Published: 25 Sep 2016 at 21:39hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Earthquake shake Chipinge
Residents in Chipinge and surrounding areas were on Thursday night awoken by tremors after an earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale hit Mozambique.The earthquake, according to US G...Published: 24 Sep 2016 at 17:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Met Dept warns of light rains
The Meteorological Service Department (MSD) has warned of windy conditions, with patchy light rains in most parts of the country from yesterday (Tuesday) until tomorrow.The department yesterda...Published: 08 Jun 2016 at 07:09hrs | | by Brenda Ziga
Midlands 'snow' rare, says Met Dept
THE Meteorological Services Department has described the "snow" that fell in Lower Gweru last Friday as a rare sleet phenomenon that has taken place in the country for the first time in history....Published: 01 Jun 2016 at 06:53hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
Zimbabwe expected to receive heavy rains - Met dept
Most parts of the country are expected to receive heavy rains with the potential of hailstorm and very strong winds (gales) between today and Monday, the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) war...Published: 27 Feb 2016 at 07:29hrs | | by Brenda Ziga
Rainy season starts today - Met Dept
The Meteorological Services Department has predicted the rainy season to kick start this week with the southern parts of the country expected to start experiencing a wet spell by from today.Ac...Published: 28 Oct 2015 at 11:15hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Met Dept seeks funds for cloud seeding
The Meteorological Services Department says Government should urgently release over $200 000 for cloud seeding during February and March as thousands of hectares of crops are under threat from a dry s...Published: 27 Jan 2015 at 15:19hrs | 1 | by Elita Chikwati
Met dept predicts wet spell to last until next Friday
The Meteorological Services Department has predicted a wet spell in various parts of the country to last until next Friday.The department says the rains will be experienced in Matabeleland and...Published: 08 Feb 2013 at 18:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Beitbridge Border Post closes due to floods
ZIMBABWE and South African border authorities were yesterday forced to stop both vehicular and human traffic after the bridge at the Beitbridge Border Post was flooded on Sunday night.The bor...Published: 21 Jan 2013 at 21:11hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zim to expect continued rainfall till April - Met dept
Zimbabwe should brace for continued rainfall till the end of April, the Meteorological Services Department has said. Speaking at a Rainfall Season Update meeting yesterday, acting deputy direc...Published: 05 Jan 2013 at 00:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Rainy season begins mid-November says Met dept
THE Meteorological Services Department yesterday said the rains being experienced in Bulawayo and some parts of the country do not signal the onset of the rainy season.The department said the ...Published: 24 Oct 2012 at 05:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Some parts of Zimbabwe to experience severe drought - Met dept
ZIMBABWE is expected to receive normal to below normal rainfall during the 2012/13 farming season, Meteorological Services Department officer Mr Jephias Mugumbate has said.However, some parts...Published: 04 Sep 2012 at 20:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
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