{"id":160774,"date":"2021-12-25T01:48:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T01:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=160774"},"modified":"2021-12-25T01:48:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T01:48:22","slug":"monsoon-expected-to-bring-continuous-rainfall-to-east-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=160774","title":{"rendered":"Monsoon expected to bring continuous rainfall to east Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By<\/em><\/strong> <em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Luqman Al-Hakim<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SHAH ALAM, 25 December 2021 &#8211; Heavy monsoon rains are expected to hit east Malaysia from Monday (27 December), according to Malay Mail report yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report quoted National Disaster Management Agency (NADMA) Director-General, Datuk Aminuddin Hassim as saying that the Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia) has warned that torrential downpours and strong winds are anticipated to impact Sabah, Sarawak, and east coast states of peninsular, Terengganu, Kelantan, and Pahang. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153At 1p.m. today (Friday), MetMalaysia announced that heavy rain is forecast for Kuantan, Pekan and Rompin in Pahang, Klang and Kuala Langat in Selangor, and Kota Tinggi in Johor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153It also warned that morning thunderstorms are expected in eastern Sabah and the east coast of peninsular Malaysia and west Sarawak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153There is a chance of late-night\nstorms lashing the east coast of peninsular Malaysia too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153As for the monsoon, which is expected to start on 27 December, it has the potential to bring continuous rainfall to western Sarawak,\u009d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In light of the forecasted weather, Aminuddin stated that NADMA and other agencies are prepared for any eventuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also stated that, as a result\nof climate change, Malaysia should begin planning for floods in places that are\nnormally non-monsoon states. ***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: Malay Mail<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Luqman Al-Hakim SHAH ALAM, 25 December 2021 &#8211; Heavy monsoon rains are expected to hit east Malaysia from Monday (27 December), according to Malay&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2750,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,6,19,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[12,156,2750],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2750"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160774"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160794,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160774\/revisions\/160794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}