{"id":83850,"date":"2026-06-22T08:18:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83850"},"modified":"2026-06-22T08:18:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:18:39","slug":"climate-swerve-europe-gripped-by-soaring-temperatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/climate-swerve-europe-gripped-by-soaring-temperatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Swerve: Europe Gripped By Soaring Temperatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From DW:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Europe was gripped by\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/extreme-weather\/t-19020379\">severe weather<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday as a\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/climate-extremes-sweltering-heat-waves\/a-73548975\">prolonged heat wave<\/a> set in across the region during the Northern Hemisphere&#8217;s summer solstice.\u00a0Celebrated annually on June 21, the solstice also marks the start of Europe\u2019s three hottest months.<\/p>\n<p>According to meteorologists, the heat wave is being driven by a mass of hot air moving north from the Sahara, fueled by a strong high-pressure system known as the &#8220;African anticyclone.&#8221;\u00a0The high-pressure system has created a so-called &#8220;heat dome,&#8221; which traps hot air over Western and Central Europe, allowing temperatures to climb day after day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DW: Europe was gripped by\u00a0severe weather\u00a0on Sunday as a\u00a0prolonged heat wave set in across the region during the Northern.<\/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-83850","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\/83850","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=83850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83851,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83850\/revisions\/83851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}