{"id":133133,"date":"2016-09-14T10:01:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T08:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=133133"},"modified":"2016-09-15T09:01:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T07:01:08","slug":"warning-weekends-cold-front-could-bring-severe-thunderstorms-and-damaging-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/09\/14\/warning-weekends-cold-front-could-bring-severe-thunderstorms-and-damaging-winds\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning &#8211; Weekend&#8217;s cold front could bring severe thunderstorms and damaging winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weathersa.co.za\/city-pages\/\" target=\"_blank\">South African Weather Service<\/a> has warned Johannesburg residents to prepare for a significant drop in temperatures this weekend as a cold front sweeps in.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that\u00a0temperatures will drop into the teens from Friday evening and only return to the mid-twenties from Tuesday.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>In addition to the cold weather warning the weather service has warned of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Severe Thunderstorms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Severe thunderstorms with strong winds, hail and heavy downpours are\u00a0possible over Ekurhuleni, Tshwane, Johannesburg, Mogale and Lesedi, which may lead to localised flooding.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Damaging Winds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Strong winds are expected in places in Gauteng from Wednesday, mainly during the afternoons.<\/p>\n<p>Some simple tips on how to stay warm this weekend:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Warm yourself first \u2013 It\u2019s easier to change your body temperature than room temperature, not to mention more eco-friendly. Instead of turning up the heat, put on another layer of clothing.<\/li>\n<li>Wear a hat \u2013 Your mom may have said that you lose 80 per cent of your body heat through your head, but that\u2019s not actually true.\u00a0If you\u2019re otherwise clothed, you\u2019ll lose heat from any surface that\u2019s exposed. So put on your hat, even if you\u2019re inside.<\/li>\n<li>Switch between hot and cold water in the shower \u2013 Hot showers immediately warm you up, but cold showers improve blood circulation between your skin and organs, they are also\u00a0correlated with a stronger immune system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/132654\/be-on-alert-in-case-of-veld-fires\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alert: DEMS warns of dangerous veld fire conditions<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='634f599ca471767a621e620d5dfe63f9'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold front temperatures set to drop into the teens this weekend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":61847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[12314,8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730],"class_list":["post-133133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-cold-weather","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["cold weather","community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}