{"id":2614,"date":"2014-12-07T17:26:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T22:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2014-12-07T17:26:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T22:26:08","slug":"bbc-news-australia-sweats-over-extreme-hot-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2614","title":{"rendered":"BBC News &#8211; Australia sweats over extreme hot weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-australia-30225276\">BBC News &#8211; Australia sweats over extreme hot weather<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\" style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 18px 0px;\">Australia has always suffered from bouts of extreme hot weather but the number and intensity of heatwaves is on the rise, prompting a rethink of how the country lives, works and plays in the sun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 18px 0px;\">Some like it hot, but the 13-day stretch with temperatures exceeding 40C in Longreach that ended last week was some of the hottest weather in living memory for the Queensland town.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 18px 0px;\">It was also a new heatwave record for the cattle country town, beating the previous record by four days, according to Australia&#8217;s Bureau of Meteorology (BoM).<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 18px 0px;\">Livestock dams began drying up, local companies asked staff to start work early to avoid the worst of the heat and native animals struggled to find water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 18px 0px;\">It was not an isolated weather pattern. Last year was Australia&#8217;s hottest since records began in 1910, according to the bureau.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 18px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News &#8211; Australia sweats over extreme hot weather. Australia has always suffered from bouts of extreme hot weather but the number and intensity of heatwaves is on the rise, prompting a rethink of how the country lives, works and plays in the sun. Some like it hot, but the 13-day stretch with temperatures exceeding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[41,1737,288,1144],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-australia","tag-extreme-heat","tag-extreme-weather","tag-heat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2615,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions\/2615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}