{"id":85169,"date":"2026-08-04T08:19:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85169"},"modified":"2026-08-04T08:19:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:19:39","slug":"in-london-first-dry-month-in-150-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/in-london-first-dry-month-in-150-years\/","title":{"rendered":"In London, First Dry Month In 150 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Semafor:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>London\u2019s Kew Gardens, home to a weather station since 1871, recorded its first calendar month with no rain in 155 years.\u00a0Europe is struggling with a continent-wide drought: Record low water levels in the Danube river have forced Hungary to shut down its only nuclear power plant, and the government is\u00a0<a class=\"_linkEmbed_1pt7l_31\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/a4539dc2-dcb0-4b57-9a78-c32cb1f9eda1?syn-25a6b1a6=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">preparing for blackouts and electricity rationing<\/a>\u00a0at a time when the country\u2019s economy is struggling.<\/p>\n<p>Romania\u2019s Cernavod\u0103 plant, also on the Danube, has already shut down and the Rhine\u2019s water shortage has disrupted German trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Semafor: London\u2019s Kew Gardens, home to a weather station since 1871, recorded its first calendar month with no rain.<\/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-85169","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\/85169","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=85169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85170,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85169\/revisions\/85170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}