{"id":10006,"date":"2017-02-07T20:01:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T01:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10006"},"modified":"2017-02-07T20:01:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T01:01:57","slug":"welcome-to-hell-on-earth-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/02\/welcome-to-hell-on-earth-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Welcome to hell on Earth in Australia&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather forecast for this weekend in Australia shows an unbelievably hot continent, with temperatures at many inland places well over 110 F. \u00a0The forecast map posted here for February 11 shows that there is a large area of 45 C plus (that&#8217;s 113 F, folks) across the eastern half\u00a0of the country. \u00a0While it is summer there, it&#8217;s still far above average in temperature, and the heat is expected to contribute to increases in drought and bushfires as well as heat-related injuries, especially in the urban areas. \u00a0You can read more about it at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/higginsstormchasing.com\/welcome-hell-earth-australia\/\">https:\/\/higginsstormchasing.com\/welcome-hell-earth-australia\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/australia-heat-wave-2-7-2017.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10007\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/australia-heat-wave-2-7-2017-300x258.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/australia-heat-wave-2-7-2017-300x258.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/australia-heat-wave-2-7-2017-160x138.png 160w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/australia-heat-wave-2-7-2017.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather forecast for this weekend in Australia shows an unbelievably hot continent, with temperatures at many inland places well over 110 F. \u00a0The forecast map posted here for February 11 shows that there is a large area of 45 C plus (that&#8217;s 113 F, folks) across the eastern half\u00a0of the country. \u00a0While it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":10007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10008,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10006\/revisions\/10008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}