{"id":74440,"date":"2026-05-29T22:06:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T22:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/74440\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T22:06:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T22:06:33","slug":"mays-record-breaking-temperatures-wrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/74440\/","title":{"rendered":"May&#8217;s record-breaking temperatures &#8211; WRS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Thursday, 28 May 2026 06:32\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/62cb8d3833281.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Switzerland is on track to record one of the hottest and driest Mays in its history. <\/p>\n<p>The federal weather service says national temperatures have run 1.8 degrees above average &#8211; the fourth-warmest May since measurements began in 1864. Rainfall is down to just 56% of normal, with parts of Graub\u00fcnden and the Engadine receiving less than half their usual totals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Confederation has issued a level-two drought alert for the Alps and the eastern Plateau, with no rain in the immediate forecast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Valais hit 33.9 degrees on Tuesday, and the early heat is setting up a difficult summer for water supplies and forest-fire risk.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, 28 May 2026 06:32 Switzerland is on track to record one of the hottest and driest Mays&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[3166,3172,3173,3164,197,3171,3169,65,3175,3168,94,3167,3165,3170,1202,3163,3177,3176,1878,41,3179,17,3178,3174,3162,3161],"class_list":["post-74440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-anglophone-radio-station","tag-broadcast","tag-butcher","tag-english-radio","tag-europe","tag-expat","tag-fm","tag-geneva","tag-geneve","tag-internet-radio","tag-lausanne","tag-local-news-geneva","tag-local-radio","tag-media","tag-news","tag-radio-frontier","tag-ski-news","tag-ski-update","tag-snow-report","tag-swiss","tag-swiss-news","tag-switzerland","tag-switzerland-news","tag-whats-on","tag-world-radio-switzerland","tag-wrs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116660141237498556","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}