{"id":152776,"date":"2026-03-25T15:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/152776\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:02:10","slug":"disruptions-as-hail-heavy-rain-hit-cairo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/152776\/","title":{"rendered":"Disruptions as Hail, Heavy Rain Hit Cairo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Schools were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/egypt.moe\/posts\/pfbid026t375WHAstPYVKX7a2jjkh6yoJfy1YLoKm7D6hN1CvYXNNvAyGVY3ChG9WmXUp2Ml?locale=ar_AR\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:closed;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;closed&quot;}\" class=\"link \">closed<\/a> across Egypt on Wednesday, March 25, as storms brought torrential rain to Cairo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This footage shows the scene in Cairo on Wednesday, as showers and hail impacted the city, the Egyptian Meteorological Authority <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ema.gov.eg\/posts\/pfbid0JpDDL13pUZNaMKgfC1curRu2MkVrB9B2CFshADgjWFAh3UST3E6NWajmD6Ants1El?locale=ar_AR\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;said&quot;}\" class=\"link \">said<\/a>. The authority advised residents that \u201ccaution and vigilance [were] necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Egypt\u2019s Ministry of Education announced on Tuesday that schools would be closed on Wednesday and Thursday \u201cdue to the unstable weather conditions.\u201d Credit: Maryam ElBedewy via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Schools were closed across Egypt on Wednesday, March 25, as storms brought torrential rain to Cairo. This footage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21],"tags":[385,1982,81477,7275,16773],"class_list":["post-152776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-cairo","tag-egypt","tag-egyptian-meteorological-authority","tag-ministry-of-education","tag-torrential-rain"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116290423622723496","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}