{"id":2181,"date":"2018-10-17T23:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T23:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2018-10-17T23:00:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T23:00:18","slug":"edmonton-breaks-115-year-old-temperature-record-for-oct-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2018\/10\/17\/edmonton-breaks-115-year-old-temperature-record-for-oct-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton breaks 115-year-old temperature record for Oct. 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of below seasonal temperatures, Edmonton experienced a record-breaking heat day on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton hit a sunny 23.6 C on Wednesday. That breaks the previous record set on this day in 1903, when Edmonton hit 22.8 C<\/p>\n<p>The current warm stretch of weather comes after the city received a few early blasts of winter weather. Edmontonians woke up to snow on Sept. 12, Sept. 21 and over the Thanksgiving long weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the city reached a daytime high over 20 C was nearly six weeks ago, on Sept. 7 when Edmonton hit 26 C.<\/p>\n<p>The above-seasonal temperatures are expected to continue through the weekend, with a high of 14 C Thursday, 12 C Friday, 14 C Saturday and 15 C Sunday. The normal high for Edmonton this time of year is 10 C, according to Global Edmonton weather specialist Mike Sobel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of below seasonal temperatures, Edmonton experienced a record-breaking heat day on Wednesday. Edmonton hit a sunny 23.6 C on Wednesday. That breaks the previous record set on this day in 1903, when Edmonton hit 22.8 C The current warm stretch of weather comes after the city received a few early blasts of winter weather. Edmontonians woke up to&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2018\/10\/17\/edmonton-breaks-115-year-old-temperature-record-for-oct-17\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions\/2182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}