{"id":141048,"date":"2024-02-16T23:44:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T23:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=141048"},"modified":"2024-02-16T23:44:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T23:44:04","slug":"weather-woes-sa-summer-forecast-bodes-ill-for-grain-crops-as-el-nino-fans-the-flames-of-drier-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=141048","title":{"rendered":"WEATHER WOES: SA summer forecast bodes ill for grain crops as El Ni\u00f1o fans the flames of drier conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the El Ni\u00f1o weather pattern strengthens, the summer forecast for South Africa has become progressively drier while remaining hot, notably for the eastern regions. This bodes ill for summer grain crops such as maize and the farming sector more widely&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2023-12-21-sa-summer-forecast-bodes-ill-for-grain-crops-as-el-nino-fans-the-flames-of-drier-conditions\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the El Ni\u00f1o weather pattern strengthens, the summer forecast for South Africa has become<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/141048-weather-woes-sa-summer-forecast-bodes-ill-for-grain-crops-as-el-nino-fans-the-flames-of-dr65cff361c8807",1280,640,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/141048-weather-woes-sa-summer-forecast-bodes-ill-for-grain-crops-as-el-nino-fans-the-flames-of-dr65cff361c8807-150x150.",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/141048-weather-woes-sa-summer-forecast-bodes-ill-for-grain-crops-as-el-nino-fans-the-flames-of-dr65cff361c8807-300x150.",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/141048-weather-woes-sa-summer-forecast-bodes-ill-for-grain-crops-as-el-nino-fans-the-flames-of-dr65cff361c8807-768x384.",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/141048-weather-woes-sa-summer-forecast-bodes-ill-for-grain-crops-as-el-nino-fans-the-flames-of-dr65cff361c8807-1024x512.",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/141048-weather-woes-sa-summer-forecast-bodes-ill-for-grain-crops-as-el-nino-fans-the-flames-of-dr65cff361c8807",1280,640,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/141048-weather-woes-sa-summer-forecast-bodes-ill-for-grain-crops-as-el-nino-fans-the-flames-of-dr65cff361c8807",1280,640,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/141048-weather-woes-sa-summer-forecast-bodes-ill-for-grain-crops-as-el-nino-fans-the-flames-of-dr65cff361c8807-1024x512.",1024,512,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/141048-weather-woes-sa-summer-forecast-bodes-ill-for-grain-crops-as-el-nino-fans-the-flames-of-dr65cff361c8807-825x575.",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/141048-weather-woes-sa-summer-forecast-bodes-ill-for-grain-crops-as-el-nino-fans-the-flames-of-dr65cff361c8807-590x410.",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/141049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}