{"id":12893,"date":"2017-08-13T07:17:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T07:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=12893"},"modified":"2017-08-13T07:17:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T07:17:09","slug":"sweltering-southern-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/sweltering-southern-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweltering Southern Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12894\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12894\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12894\" src=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sweltering_southern_Europe_node_full_image_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"603\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sweltering_southern_Europe_node_full_image_2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sweltering_southern_Europe_node_full_image_2-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12894\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sweltering southern Europe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Southern Europe is in the grip of a relentless heatwave, fuelling wildfires and water shortages. Information from the Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite has been used to map the sweltering heat across the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The map shows that on 7 August 2017, temperatures of the land surface rose above 40\u00b0C \u2013 not an usual occurrence over the last weeks. Much of Italy, including Rome, Naples, Florence, Sardinia and Sicily has been suffering these highs. With numerous towns and cities on the ministry of health\u2019s maximum heat alert, the Italians have aptly dubbed the heatwave \u2018Lucifer\u2019. Extreme temperatures have also been recorded in Spain and Portugal, the Balkans and Greece.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As well as wildfires and water shortages, the heat has also led to some tourist attractions being closed, ill health and even some fatalities, and the drought is also threatening crops.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The map uses data from the satellite\u2019s Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer, which measures energy radiating from Earth\u2019s surface in nine spectral bands \u2013 the map therefore represents temperature of the land surface, not air temperature which is normally used in forecasts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Europe is in the grip of a relentless heatwave, fuelling wildfires and water shortages. Information from the Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite has been used to map the sweltering heat across the region. The map shows that on 7 August 2017, temperatures of the land surface rose above 40\u00b0C \u2013 not an usual occurrence over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-space-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sweltering_southern_Europe_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,603,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sweltering_southern_Europe_node_full_image_2-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sweltering_southern_Europe_node_full_image_2-300x258.jpg",300,258,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sweltering_southern_Europe_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,603,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sweltering_southern_Europe_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,603,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sweltering_southern_Europe_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,603,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sweltering_southern_Europe_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,603,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sweltering_southern_Europe_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,603,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sweltering_southern_Europe_node_full_image_2.jpg",662,570,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sweltering_southern_Europe_node_full_image_2.jpg",600,517,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sweltering_southern_Europe_node_full_image_2.jpg",600,517,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sweltering_southern_Europe_node_full_image_2.jpg",569,490,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sweltering_southern_Europe_node_full_image_2.jpg",418,360,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sweltering_southern_Europe_node_full_image_2.jpg",75,65,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sweltering_southern_Europe_node_full_image_2.jpg",640,551,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sweltering_southern_Europe_node_full_image_2.jpg",96,83,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sweltering_southern_Europe_node_full_image_2.jpg",150,129,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Amrita Tuladhar"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/news\/space-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Space\/ AstroPhysics<\/a>","tag_info":"Space\/ AstroPhysics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}