{"id":57396,"date":"2023-08-09T14:15:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T05:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/09\/hoodies-sell-out-in-tonga-as-el-nino-brings-wintry-chill"},"modified":"2023-08-09T14:15:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T05:15:45","slug":"hoodies-sell-out-in-tonga-as-el-nino-brings-wintry-chill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57396","title":{"rendered":"Hoodies sell out in Tonga as El Ni\u00f1o brings wintry chill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents on island rush to buy warm clothing and heaters amid unusually cold winter weather for the Pacific nation<\/p>\n<p>Tonga is bracing for more chilly weather as the Pacific nation shivers through one of its coldest winters ever, sparking a rush for jackets and heating units.<\/p>\n<p>The island has experienced unusually cold weather through July and Tonga Meteorological Services (TMS) recorded a low of 9.3 degrees Celsius at the Lapaha village weather station at the end of the month. The country\u2019s record low of 8.7C was set in September 1994.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/09\/hoodies-sell-out-in-tonga-as-el-nino-brings-wintry-chill\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents on island rush to buy warm clothing and heaters amid unusually cold winter weather for the Pacific nationTonga is bracing for more chilly weather as the Pacific nation shivers through one of its coldest winters ever, sparking a rush for jacke&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3877,"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":[41,2962,65,874,280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-el-nino-southern-oscillation","category-environment","category-pacific-islands","category-tonga"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57396","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\/3877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57397,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57396\/revisions\/57397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}