{"id":35577,"date":"2026-06-24T21:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35577"},"modified":"2026-06-24T21:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:22:07","slug":"abingdon-in-the-heat-a-brief-report-from-another-hot-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35577","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon in the Heat: a brief report from another hot day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026062406.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis morning the sun shone and there were no clouds to shade its brilliance.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026062405.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nTown council staff were out early in the Market Place, giving the hanging baskets much-needed water. On a day like this, hydration wasn\u2019t just important for plants, but for the town\u2019s people too.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026062412.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Climate Emergency Centre opened, unusually on Tuesday and Wednesday, to offer the use of the cool basement space below the museum, where people could have a drink of water,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026062408.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMost state schools closed for the afternoon and are expected to close tomorrow afternoon as temperatures remain high.<\/p>\n<p>Some people headed to the River Thames, with paddle boards and canoes. The open-air pool was busy, and other people relaxed by the river bank.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026062404.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nTemperatures reached around 34\u00b0C today in Abingdon, with another hot day forecast for tomorrow. The hottest June temperature ever recorded in the UK happened today. It was 36.1C in Gosport, Hampshire<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, the forecast suggests the heat will continue through Thursday before any change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning the sun shone and there were no clouds to shade its brilliance. Town council staff were out early in the Market Place, giving the hanging baskets much-needed water. On a day like this, hydration wasn\u2019t just important for plants, but for the town\u2019s people too. The Climate Emergency Centre opened, unusually on Tuesday [&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-35577","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\/35577","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=35577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}