{"id":1963,"date":"2025-11-15T16:24:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T16:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/?p=1963"},"modified":"2025-11-15T16:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T16:24:22","slug":"severe-weather-alert-joburg-braces-for-level-6-thunderstorm-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/?p=1963","title":{"rendered":"SEVERE WEATHER ALERT: Joburg Braces for Level 6 Thunderstorm Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>JOHANNESBURG \u2014 The City of Johannesburg\u2019s Disaster Management Centre has issued a Level 6 severe thunderstorm warning for tomorrow, signalling a high risk of dangerous weather conditions across the metro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All critical city services, including Johannesburg Roads Agency, Joburg Water, City Power and EMS are now on high alert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents are urged to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Clear blocked drains around their homes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Avoid flooded roads and bridges<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Move to higher ground if living in low-lying or flood-prone areas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities warn of significant impacts, including localised flooding in formal and informal settlements, low-lying areas, and across several bridges. Stay alert and follow official updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG \u2014 The City of Johannesburg\u2019s Disaster Management Centre has issued a Level 6 severe thunderstorm warning for tomorrow, signalling a high risk of dangerous weather conditions across the metro.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,53,56,55,54],"class_list":["post-1963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-news","tag-diepsloot-news","tag-floods","tag-heavy-rain","tag-rain","tag-thunderstorms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1964,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions\/1964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}