{"id":64498,"date":"2024-05-29T15:19:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T06:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2024\/may\/29\/india-heatwave-weather-delhi-record-temperatures-photos-pictures"},"modified":"2024-05-29T15:19:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T06:19:52","slug":"record-breaking-heatwave-hits-delhi-as-india-swelters-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64498","title":{"rendered":"Record breaking heatwave hits Delhi as India swelters \u2013 in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Temperatures in Delhi have soared to record highs of 49.9C (121.8F) as authorities warn of water shortages. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/india\">India<\/a> Meteorological Department (IMD), which reported \u201csevere heatwave conditions\u201d, recorded the temperatures on Tuesday, saying they were nine degrees higher than expected<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2024\/may\/29\/india-heatwave-weather-delhi-record-temperatures-photos-pictures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temperatures in Delhi have soared to record highs of 49.9C (121.8F) as authorities warn of water shortages. The India Meteorological Department (IMD), which reported \u201csevere heatwave conditions\u201d, recorded the temperatures on Tuesday, saying they were n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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":[353,62,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delhi","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64498","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64527,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64498\/revisions\/64527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}