{"id":41986,"date":"2019-12-18T21:22:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T21:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41986"},"modified":"2019-12-18T21:22:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T21:22:06","slug":"australia-swelters-on-its-hottest-day-ever-as-wildfires-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41986","title":{"rendered":"Australia swelters on its hottest day ever as wildfires rage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Australia experienced its hottest average day across the country<strong> <\/strong>Tuesday, with the national temperature soaring as devastating wildfires continued to burn across New South Wales (NSW) state.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The average maximum temperature across the country on Tuesday was 40.9 degrees Celsius (105.6 Fahrenheit), according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BOM_au\/status\/1207128438554783746?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Bureau of Meteorology<\/a> &#8212; beating the previous 2013 record of 40.3 Celsius (104.5 Fahrenheit).<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">That&#8217;s just the average nationwide figure &#8212; the heat has spiked even higher in some places, like the town of Ceduna in South Australia, which hit 45.5 degrees Celsius (nearly 114 Fahrenheit). <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Australia experienced its hottest average day across the country Tuesday, with the national temperature soaring as devastating wildfires continued to burn across New South Wales (NSW) state.The average maximum temperature across the country on Tuesday was 40.9 degrees Celsius (105.6 Fahrenheit), according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology &#8212; beating the previous 2013 record of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}