{"id":25496,"date":"2022-09-12T14:18:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T14:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=25496"},"modified":"2026-07-05T17:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:17:30","slug":"floods-heavy-winds-hit-accra-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/09\/12\/floods-heavy-winds-hit-accra-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Floods, heavy winds hit Accra today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some areas in Accra have flooded after a heavy rainfall on Friday, May 6,2022.<\/p>\n<p>The one-hour heavy rainfall, obstructed the flow of vehicular traffic on the Weija Barrier \u2013 West Hills Mall stretch of the Kasoa Highway, Central Business District, Sahara and Odawna, among other areas.<\/p>\n<p>While many commuters parked their cars for the rain to subside, others carefully drove through the flood which covered most part of the road.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25497\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2022\/09\/rain1-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2022\/09\/rain1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2022\/09\/rain1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Ghana Meteorological Agency had already predicted a thunderstorm on Friday, a few hours before the rain.<\/p>\n<p>source:nsemgh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some areas in Accra have flooded after a heavy rainfall on Friday, May 6,2022. The one-hour heavy rainfall, obstructed the flow of vehicular traffic on the Weija Barrier \u2013 West Hills Mall stretch of the Kasoa Highway, Central Business District, Sahara and Odawna, among other areas. While many commuters parked their cars for the rain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[4553,5520,5787,192,1330,13169,5750,67,11973,10716,7887,5594,7969],"class_list":["post-25496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-accra","tag-cars","tag-flood","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-meteorological-agency","tag-heavy-rainfall","tag-kasoa","tag-nsemgh","tag-one","tag-rain","tag-rainfall","tag-traffic","tag-weija"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50817,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25496\/revisions\/50817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}