{"id":83043,"date":"2026-05-26T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83043"},"modified":"2026-05-26T08:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:30:35","slug":"europe-smashing-heat-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/europe-smashing-heat-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe Smashing Heat Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Temperature records have toppled as\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/europe-hot-weather-heat-france-uk-a3117507f6a882b04b8a353ef82a01fb\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">a spring heatwave<\/a> <\/span>continued to scorch parts of Western Europe on Tuesday, triggering government warnings about risks to life. Several drownings were reported in Britain and France as people tried to cool down.\u00a0London recorded a rare \u201ctropical night,\u201d defined as one in which the temperature does not fall below 20 Celsius (68 Fahrenheit), and Britain\u2019s Met Office weather service said the temperature in southern England could reach 35 C (95 F) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Monday was the U.K.\u2019s hottest May day on record, with the temperature hitting 34.8 C (94.6 F) at Kew Gardens in London, smashing the previous record of 32.8 C (91.4 F) set in 1922 and 1944.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1779784235\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Europe Smashing Heat Records\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Temperature records have toppled as\u00a0a spring heatwave continued to scorch parts of Western Europe on Tuesday, triggering government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83044,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83043\/revisions\/83044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}