{"id":4306,"date":"2014-03-06T11:41:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T11:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=4306"},"modified":"2014-03-06T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T12:09:00","slug":"meteo-service-told-to-sharpen-skills-as-rain-beats-pupils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=4306","title":{"rendered":"Meteo Service told to sharpen skills as rain beats pupils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Special-Forces.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4327\" alt=\"Special Forces\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Special-Forces-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Special-Forces-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Special-Forces.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Students and pupils who were selected \u00a0to march at the Independence Day celebrations at the Black Star Square were on Thursday left stranded without any protection as torrential rains disrupted the event.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s 57<sup>th<\/sup> Independence celebration was almost marred by the heavy rains and the pupils were left standing in the rain for almost 15 minutes before some left to find protection.<\/p>\n<p>However, the pupils and security personnel defied the rains which President John Mahama described as \u201cshowers of blessing\u201d and waited in the rain for the president to arrive.<\/p>\n<p>In his address, the President asked the Ghana Meteorological Services to sharpen their skills as their warning about the rainfall arrived too late saying,\u00a0\u201cwe must sharpen our ability to be able to predict the behaviour of the weather in order to be able to adapt to it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The President also warned against the impact of climate change and asked the Service to implement \u201cclimate change adaptability\u201d to be \u201cbetter able to predict the weather.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Reports from the 2014 event indicates there were no alternative plans for any eventuality. There were no umbrellas on site to protect dignitaries either.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Evans Effah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students and pupils who were selected \u00a0to march at the Independence Day celebrations at the Black Star Square were on Thursday left stranded without any protection as torrential rains disrupted the event. Ghana\u2019s 57th Independence celebration was almost marred by the heavy rains and the pupils were left standing in the rain for almost 15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38,17],"class_list":["post-4306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}