{"id":75384,"date":"2026-08-11T16:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/75384\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T16:00:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T16:00:04","slug":"footage-of-a-dust-devil-went-viral-what-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/75384\/","title":{"rendered":"Footage of a dust devil went viral. What is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Footage of a dust devil went viral. What is it?\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2sTO8nUvzmY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nFootage of a dust devil went viral. What is it?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSunbathers in London\u2019s Greenwich Park were interrupted on Sunday when a spinning column of dust tore across the dried-out grass.<br \/>\nSubscribe \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>The phenomenon, known as a dust devil, is rarely seen in the UK. Dust devils typically occur in dry places such as deserts when the ground is hot. Air gets pulled into a rotating vortex, picking up dust as it moves.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Met Office, July was the driest month in southern England since records began nearly 200 years ago as drought becomes more common as a result of climate breakdown.<\/p>\n<p>#dustdevil #greenwichpark #drought #extremeheat #extremeweather<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Footage of a dust devil went viral. What is it? Sunbathers in London\u2019s Greenwich Park were interrupted on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[95,33674,14082,6248,62210,62225,62214,62211,62212,62213,35575,6540,62215,62224,62219,62220,62221,62216,240,261,18582,62217,490,62223,62222,31,62228,62226,19684,19631,62227,279,58822,32522,53498,341,32523,2718,62218],"class_list":["post-75384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guardian-news","tag-95","tag-devil","tag-drought","tag-dust","tag-dust-devil","tag-dust-devil-caught-on-camera","tag-dust-devil-greenwich","tag-dust-devil-london","tag-dust-devil-tornado","tag-dust-devil-uk","tag-extreme-heat","tag-extreme-weather","tag-greenwich","tag-greenwich-dust-devil","tag-greenwich-park","tag-greenwich-park-tornado","tag-greenwich-tornado","tag-grenwich","tag-guardian","tag-guardian-news","tag-heatwave","tag-lodnon","tag-london","tag-london-dust-devil","tag-london-tornado","tag-news","tag-ooh","tag-storm-chasers","tag-tornado","tag-tornadoes","tag-twister","tag-uk","tag-uk-drought","tag-uk-heatwave","tag-uk-latest","tag-uk-news","tag-uk-weather","tag-weather","tag-what-is-a-dust-devil"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}