{"id":146221,"date":"2026-08-15T00:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T00:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/146221\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T00:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T00:04:10","slug":"brussels-records-hottest-day-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/146221\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels records hottest day of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The European Union\u2019s de facto capital of Brussels on Friday recorded its hottest day of 2026 so far, with the city roasting in 35.9C heat, Belgium\u2019s IRM weather agency said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along with much of Europe, Belgium is sweltering under the latest in a succession of heatwaves that have broken records in several countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to AFP calculations, parts of the continent home to at least 150 million people on Friday experienced temperatures above 35C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scientific experts say that human-made climate change has made such phenomena more extreme and more frequent, and Europe has become the globe\u2019s fastest-warming continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Union\u2019s de facto capital of Brussels on Friday recorded its hottest day of 2026 so far,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[211,210,762,25832],"class_list":["post-146221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-international","tag-mna"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117096603049943336","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146221","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=146221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}