{"id":189912,"date":"2020-08-13T12:07:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T11:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=189912"},"modified":"2020-08-13T12:08:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T11:08:44","slug":"why-is-it-so-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/why-is-it-so-hot\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is It So Hot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A sudden and unexpected heatwave is hitting the UK hard right now, with temperatures rising above 25\u00b0c.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-110612\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/5A7D0866-4C26-4089-9F14-D6CFF005003B-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/5A7D0866-4C26-4089-9F14-D6CFF005003B-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/5A7D0866-4C26-4089-9F14-D6CFF005003B-480x360.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/5A7D0866-4C26-4089-9F14-D6CFF005003B.jpeg 574w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul id=\"attachment_110612\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 300px;\">\n<li class=\"wp-caption-dd\">It\u2019s hot hot hot in the UK right now!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Humidity is probably one of the highest I\u2019ve ever seen it &#8211; and everyone\u2019s having a bit of trouble sleeping!<\/p>\n<p>A lot of stores are even selling out of electric fans due to the heat, it seems no one can cope, with one person writing on Twitter: &#8220;Got steadily hotter the last three nights, this is unbearable. I&#8217;m so tired and cranky its unreal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, why is it actually so warm?<\/p>\n<p>Met Office spokeswoman Bonnie Diamond told WalesOnline: &#8220;Temperatures are high overnight as the hot air mass remains over the UK and winds are light so the air is very still.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Until we see the current weather set up turn changeable allowing Atlantic weather fronts to introduce fresher air and less warm temperatures \u2013 it will stay uncomfortable,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"amp-ad-wrapper\">It\u2019s still set to be warm for a couple of days yet, despite temperatures dropping by a few degrees overnight. Our best chance at a reduction in temperature, Met Office have said, is the middle of next week, when cooler winds come north to the UK.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sudden and unexpected heatwave is hitting the UK hard right now, with temperatures rising above 25\u00b0c.\u00a0 It\u2019s hot hot hot in the UK right now! Humidity is probably one of the highest I\u2019ve ever seen it &#8211; and everyone\u2019s having a bit of trouble sleeping! A lot of stores are even selling out of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":110612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[71,101,43,707],"class_list":["post-189912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-news","tag-weather"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189944,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189912\/revisions\/189944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}