{"id":11368,"date":"2017-06-07T15:01:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T19:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11368"},"modified":"2017-06-07T15:01:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T19:01:45","slug":"recent-extreme-weather-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/06\/recent-extreme-weather-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent extreme weather around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

Extreme weather has hit several regions around the world in recent weeks. According to Dr. Jeff Masters of\u00a0Weather Underground<\/em>, “The last week of May 2017 and first week of June brought one the most extraordinary heatwaves in world history to Asia, the Middle East and Europe. The mercury shot up to an astonishing 53.5\u00b0C (128.3\u00b0F) at Turbat, Pakistan on May 28, making it Earth\u2019s hottest temperature ever recorded in the month of May\u2014and one of Earth\u2019s top-five hottest reliably-measured<\/u> temperatures on record, for any month. Both Pakistan and Oman tied their all-time national heat records for any month during the heat wave, and all-time national heat records for the month of May were set in Iran, Norway and Austria.”\u00a0<\/em>You can read more about it at\u00a0https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/cat6\/historic-heat-wave-sweeps-asia-middle-east-and-europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In South Africa, an intense rainstorm hit Cape Town, causing multiple deaths including a family of four that was killed by a fire set by lightning, according to BBC. \u00a0The rain came after a protracted drought had impacted the region. \u00a0You can see some pictures and read more at https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-40185177<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Alex De Kock watched on Signal Hill in Cape Town as the storm approached<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Extreme weather has hit several regions around the world in recent weeks. According to Dr. Jeff Masters of\u00a0Weather Underground, “The last week of May 2017 and first week of June brought one the most extraordinary heatwaves in world history to Asia, the Middle East and Europe. The mercury shot up to an astonishing 53.5\u00b0C (128.3\u00b0F) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":11369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11368","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\/11368","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=11368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11370,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11368\/revisions\/11370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}