{"id":11715,"date":"2017-07-10T00:29:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T04:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11715"},"modified":"2017-07-10T00:29:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T04:29:22","slug":"los-angeles-breaks-131-year-old-temperature-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/07\/los-angeles-breaks-131-year-old-temperature-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles breaks 131-year old temperature record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Newser<\/em> reported this week that Los Angeles broke a 131-year temperature record on Saturday with a temperature of 96 F in downtown LA, surpassing the old record of 95 F set back in 1886. The high temperatures have caused problems for children, the elderly and other vulnerable populations and increased the incidence of heat-related illnesses and forest fires. The heat has been especially hard on the dairy industry, which has had to deal with livestock deaths, and the hot, dry winds have also exacerbated wildfires in the region, according to the report.\u00a0 You can read the article along with a link to the AP story and several photos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/245426\/how-hot-is-it-in-la-record-breaking-hot-and-dangerous.html?utm_source=sundaysummary&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=18636352310818662165&amp;utm_campaign=20170709\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4965\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4965\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/Gfp-florida-keys-key-west-red-sun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4965\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/Gfp-florida-keys-key-west-red-sun-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/Gfp-florida-keys-key-west-red-sun-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/Gfp-florida-keys-key-west-red-sun-206x138.jpg 206w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/Gfp-florida-keys-key-west-red-sun.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Yinan Chen, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newser reported this week that Los Angeles broke a 131-year temperature record on Saturday with a temperature of 96 F in downtown LA, surpassing the old record of 95 F set back in 1886. The high temperatures have caused problems for children, the elderly and other vulnerable populations and increased the incidence of heat-related illnesses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-forests","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11715","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=11715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11716,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11715\/revisions\/11716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}