{"id":22431,"date":"2026-05-25T15:45:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22431"},"modified":"2026-05-26T08:31:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:31:45","slug":"phew-what-a-scorcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22431","title":{"rendered":"Phew, What a Scorcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22432\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/sun2026-05-25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/sun2026-05-25.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/sun2026-05-25-300x256.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>Our hottest ever day in May at 32.2\u00b0C, beating 32.0\u00b0C on 28 May 2012 (but that was with the old weather station, which over-read by 4 or 5 degrees in direct sunshine). Record-breaking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/may\/25\/uk-heat-may-temperature-record-weather\">throughout the country<\/a>, too.<br \/>\nA2 is chilling out with a reread of <em>The Darkness Knows<\/em> by Arnaldur Indridason; a frozen corpse is discovered in a glacier. Cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our hottest ever day in May at 32.2\u00b0C, beating 32.0\u00b0C on 28 May 2012 (but that was with the old weather station, which over-read by 4 or 5 degrees in direct sunshine). Record-breaking throughout the country, too. A2 is chilling out with a reread of The Darkness Knows by Arnaldur Indridason; a frozen corpse is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22431\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Phew, What a Scorcher&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22431"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22438,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22431\/revisions\/22438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}