{"id":48236,"date":"2026-10-22T06:30:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=48236"},"modified":"2026-10-22T06:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:30:39","slug":"special-report-giant-heat-storms-are-scorching-the-earth-this-is-the-story-of-the-biggest-one-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=48236","title":{"rendered":"Special Report-Giant \u2018heat storms\u2019 are scorching the Earth. This is the story of the biggest one on record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The largest heat wave of the 1960s reached about 6% of the planet as it drifted for 46 days over the Atlantic Ocean, parts of Latin America and West Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The largest one this decade swept across almost 85% of the globe during its 367-day lifetime, stretching into the polar latitudes and touching virtually every human being on Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https3A2F2Fmedia.zenfs_.com2Fen2Freuters.com2F807e238094daa007a9d635bb6367efc1.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.467937775773777;width:231px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/science\/articles\/special-report-giant-heat-storms-101346978.html\">Special Report-Giant \u2018heat storms\u2019 are scorching the Earth. This is the story of the biggest one on record<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest heat wave of the 1960s reached about 6% of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[319,578,561,21],"class_list":["post-48236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-agw","tag-climate","tag-earth","tag-uh-oh","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48239,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48236\/revisions\/48239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}