{"id":143151,"date":"2026-08-10T13:55:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/143151\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T13:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:55:31","slug":"polands-vistula-river-drops-to-historic-low-in-warsaw-official-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/143151\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland&#8217;s Vistula river drops to historic low in Warsaw: official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Vistula, Poland\u2019s longest river, fell on Monday to match its record low in Warsaw, the national meteorological institute IMGW reported, with Europe sweltering through multiple heatwaves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are currently recording a water level of 102 centimetres (40 inches),\u201d matching a record set only on Friday, IMGW hydrologist Dariusz Witkowski told AFP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nationwide, the hydrological situation in Poland is \u201cthe most difficult since 2015\u201d, he said, adding that \u201clow water levels are being observed in 66 percent of our rivers and at our hydrological stations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The situation could worsen in late August and early September, when forecasts \u201cindicate that the coming days and weeks will likely see above-normal temperatures and, unfortunately, below-normal precipitation, which could exacerbate the drought\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked by public radio station Jedynka about the risk of power outages due to the Vistula\u2019s low water level, Polish Energy Minister Milosz Motyka said on Monday that he did not foresee \u201cany interruption\u2026 or any limitation on the supply\u201d of electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vistula, Poland\u2019s longest river, fell on Monday to match its record low in Warsaw, the national meteorological&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[95],"tags":[762,25832,182,181],"class_list":["post-143151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-warsaw","tag-international","tag-mna","tag-poland","tag-warsaw"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117071559185879461","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}