{"id":56838,"date":"2023-07-21T20:04:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T11:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/21\/weather-tracker-records-fall-europe-heatwave-wildfires-hailstones-philippines-typhoon"},"modified":"2023-07-21T20:04:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T11:04:52","slug":"weather-tracker-records-fall-but-worst-of-europes-heatwave-may-yet-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56838","title":{"rendered":"Weather tracker: records fall but worst of Europe\u2019s heatwave may yet to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme heat lingers, leading to wildfires and even giant hailstones. Plus Philippines braces for fifth typhoon of the season<\/p>\n<p>Extreme heat has lingered over southern Europe throughout the past week, with all-time records broken in a number of locations. Just a few places that recorded their highest ever temperature on 19 July include: Decimomannu in Sardinia at 46.2C, Malaga airport in Spain at 44.2C, and Durr\u00ebs in Albania at 40.4C.<\/p>\n<p>The World Meteorological Organization confirmed that the highest <br \/>temperature ever recorded in Europe was 48.8C in Sicily in 2021, possibly spurred on by the risk of this week\u2019s heatwave breaking records. Throughout the coming week much of Spain and France will have a respite from the highest temperatures. However, from Italy eastwards into the Balkans the heat will linger and the worst may be yet to come.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/21\/weather-tracker-records-fall-europe-heatwave-wildfires-hailstones-philippines-typhoon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme heat lingers, leading to wildfires and even giant hailstones. Plus Philippines braces for fifth typhoon of the seasonExtreme heat has lingered over southern Europe throughout the past week, with all-time records broken in a number of locations&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1458,50,65,221,455,451,55,746],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albania","category-china","category-environment","category-europe","category-extreme-weather","category-italy","category-philippines","category-spain"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56862,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56838\/revisions\/56862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}