{"id":20080,"date":"2026-08-22T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/22\/afghanistan-weather-warning-heavy-rain-flash-flooding-10-provinces\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T10:00:15","slug":"afghanistan-weather-warning-heavy-rain-flash-flooding-10-provinces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/22\/afghanistan-weather-warning-heavy-rain-flash-flooding-10-provinces\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather Department Warns of Heavy Rain and Flash Flooding in 10 Provinces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather department has warned that 10 provinces of Afghanistan are at risk of heavy rainfall, thunderstorms and flash flooding.<\/p>\n<p>According to the warning, Badakhshan, Takhar, Baghlan, Nuristan, Kunar, Laghman, Nangarhar, Paktia, Khost and Paktika are among the vulnerable areas.<\/p>\n<p>The department said rainfall in some areas is forecast at between 10 and 30 millimetres. Wind speeds in some regions could also reach 50 to 100 kilometres per hour.<\/p>\n<p>The weather department routinely monitors and forecasts the country&#8217;s weather conditions and issues necessary alerts when severe weather events are likely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan\u2019s weather department warns of heavy rain, thunderstorms and flash flooding in 10 provinces, with wind speeds up to 100 km\/h.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}