{"id":9470,"date":"2026-05-04T13:39:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=9470"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:39:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:39:36","slug":"uk-weather-temperature-tops-26c-on-one-of-hottest-april-days-of-past-80-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/05\/04\/uk-weather-temperature-tops-26c-on-one-of-hottest-april-days-of-past-80-year\/","title":{"rendered":"UK weather: temperature tops 26C on one of hottest April days of past 80 year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The United Kingdom recorded one of its hottest early-April days in nearly 80 years, with temperatures reaching 26.5\u00b0C in London. This level is highly unusual for the season and significantly above long-term averages. Meteorologists attribute the anomaly to atmospheric patterns drawing warm air northward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 8 April 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/apr\/08\/uk-weather-one-of-hottest-april-days-past-80-years\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom recorded one of its hottest early-April days in nearly 80 years, with temperatures reaching 26.5\u00b0C in London. This level is highly unusual for the season and significantly above long-term averages. Meteorologists attribute the anomaly to atmospheric patterns drawing warm air northward. Date: 8 April 2026. Source: theguardian.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":9659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9661,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9470\/revisions\/9661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}