{"id":47662,"date":"2026-10-09T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47662"},"modified":"2026-10-09T12:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:00:42","slug":"kenya-experiences-increasingly-unpredictable-climate-patterns","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenya-experiences-increasingly-unpredictable-climate-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya experiences increasingly unpredictable climate patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Senior Climatologist from the North West University in South Africa (SA) Dr Steve Balaka Opiyo says the last few years have seen unpredictable climatic patterns in Kenya.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He adds that over the last few years the temperatures in Kenya have been generally increasing.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The rainfall is highly variable or highly unpredictable, there is years of very intense rainfall and then years of little to no rainfall.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The situation has severely affected food production with rising food prices and farmers complaining that the situation is severely hampering their production.<\/p>\n<p>The consequences of the unpredictable weather patterns can be floods and drought, heatwaves which have been reported in the country..<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This weather affects agricultural production and security significantly.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20660,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-47662","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Last few years have seen unpredictable climatic patterns in Kenya","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47666,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47662\/revisions\/47666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}