{"id":40794,"date":"2020-02-04T11:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/january-2020-was-rwanda-s-wettest\/"},"modified":"2020-02-07T17:09:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T17:09:03","slug":"january-2020-was-rwanda-s-wettest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/january-2020-was-rwanda-s-wettest\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2020 was Rwanda\u2019s wettest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However, Meteo Rwanda shows that January usually gets between 51.6-1.7 mm.<\/p>\n<p>The Southern, Western provinces and the City of Kigali had the highest amount of rainfall.<\/p>\n<p>Meteo Rwanda stated, \u201cIn comparison to the rain from past years, the third part of January experienced the biggest amount of rain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Due to the rain, soil moisture in the last ten days of January 2020 increased, especially in Southern Province, south of Western Province as well as Kigali City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComparing it to the third season of January, the first season of February will see a decrease in rainfall. The rain will be between 30 and 125 millimeters. The Southern Province and the south of Western Province will have the highest amount of rainfall than elsewhere,\u201d Meteo Rwanda added.<\/p>\n<p>The weather monitoring agency called upon farmers to prepare their fields for the season. It also advises farmers to follow meteorology news so as to take informed decisions.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-34663 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ahantu_hatan0484-a2864-2-108d1.jpg\" alt=\"January 2020 was Rwanda\u2019s wettest\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda Meteorology Agency (Meteo Rwanda) has announced that January 2020 experienced rainfall higher than in any other January as per the weather report released February 2, 2020. The highest precipitation was 158 millimeters in Nyamagabe followed by Gitega with 118.2 mm, Rubengera 113.2 mm and Kawangire had the lowest at 6.4 mm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[236],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-40794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-alain-jules-hirwa"],"bylines":[{"id":236,"name":"Alain Jules Hirwa","slug":"alain-jules-hirwa","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":81}],"contributors":[{"id":236,"name":"Alain Jules Hirwa","slug":"alain-jules-hirwa","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":81}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40794"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40794"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}