{"id":35453,"date":"2026-05-25T22:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35453"},"modified":"2026-05-25T22:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:53:11","slug":"too-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35453","title":{"rendered":"Nine Days, Nineteen Degrees Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hottest day in May ever recorded in the UK saw temperatures in Abingdon reach 33\u00b0C.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026052501.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers, last seen at the St Edmund&#8217;s 850th celebrations (May 16th), began their day at the Harwell Feast. They took part in the parade and danced at the Feast before hot-footing it to Bampton for the Bampton Whitsun 2026 celebrations.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026052503.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBack in Abingdon, Bank Holiday Walks were organised by the Friends of Abingdon. I caught up with a couple of the walk leaders after they finished. The 1556 Boundary Walk was partly led by the Town Crier, Cllr Penny Clover. It may have been the hottest Boundary Walk in 470 years.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026052502.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Lost Abbey tour, led by Dr Philip Kendrick, came 9 days after he led the same walk as part of the St Edmund&#8217;s 850th celebrations when the maximum temperature was 14\u00b0C according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/weather\/@2657780\/historic\">https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/weather\/@2657780\/historic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hottest day in May ever recorded in the UK saw temperatures in Abingdon reach 33\u00b0C. The Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers, last seen at the St Edmund&#8217;s 850th celebrations (May 16th), began their day at the Harwell Feast. They took part in the parade and danced at the Feast before hot-footing it to Bampton for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}