{"id":75388,"date":"2025-11-28T19:37:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T10:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/nov\/28\/weather-tracker-snowfall-cuts-power-poland-flooding-devastates-sri-lanka"},"modified":"2025-11-28T19:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T10:37:59","slug":"weather-tracker-snowfall-cuts-power-in-poland-and-flooding-devastates-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75388","title":{"rendered":"Weather tracker: Snowfall cuts power in Poland and flooding devastates Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Temperatures dip to -8.5C in Poland and 250mm of rain falls in 24-hour period across Sri Lanka <\/p>\n<p>Temperatures plummeted this week across the eastern half of Europe, with the Alps dipping as low as -20C and to -8.5\u00b0C in the Polish town of Zakopane in the Tatras Mountains.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy snow also affected other parts of Poland with 15-20cm of snow falling in much of the central swathe of the country and more than 40cm in the south towards the mountains.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/nov\/28\/weather-tracker-snowfall-cuts-power-poland-flooding-devastates-sri-lanka\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temperatures dip to -8.5C in Poland and 250mm of rain falls in 24-hour period across Sri Lanka Temperatures plummeted this week across the eastern half of Europe, with the Alps dipping as low as -20C and to -8.5\u00b0C in the Polish town of Zakopane in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5080,"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":[65,221,455,1213,1791,61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-europe","category-extreme-weather","category-poland","category-snow","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75388","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\/5080"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75395,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75388\/revisions\/75395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}