{"id":20375,"date":"2016-09-13T15:20:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T14:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20375"},"modified":"2016-09-13T19:21:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T18:21:05","slug":"the-hottest-september-day-since-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20375","title":{"rendered":"The hottest September day since 1949 (now since 1911)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here in London, the weather has been incredible today for mid September. The peak temperature &#8211; towards 2 pm &#8211; was an amazing 32C (of oldies, like me, that&#8217;s 90F). Fortunately I had no meetings today, so I did not need to endure the London underground to travel into the city centre. Instead I ate prawn salad for lunch while sitting outdoors on the terrace with the awning extended.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-37345436\">the news repor<\/a>t on the BBC website, the hottest temperature in the country today was 32.8C at Heathrow Airport quite close to where I live in north-west London. This makes it the hottest September day for 67 years &#8211; that is, as far back as 1949. There is a particular explanation for this week&#8217;s weather &#8211; something to do with Hurricane\u00a0Hermine &#8211; but one can&#8217;t help seeing this as a further manifestation of the growing impact global warming.<\/p>\n<p>Footnote: Since I wrote this post, another record has been broken. We now find that today has been\u00a0the warmest September day since 1911 &#8211; this has been recorded in Gravesend, Kent, where it reached 34.4C (93.9F). Whew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in London, the weather has been incredible today for mid September. The peak temperature &#8211; towards 2 pm &#8211; was an amazing 32C (of oldies, like me, that&#8217;s 90F). Fortunately I had no meetings today, so I did not need to endure the London underground to travel into the city centre. Instead I ate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20375"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20379,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20375\/revisions\/20379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}