{"id":1809198,"date":"2022-09-27T09:04:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T13:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1809198"},"modified":"2022-09-27T09:04:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T13:04:54","slug":"the-mediterraneans-summer-heat-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/09\/the-mediterraneans-summer-heat-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mediterranean&#8217;s Summer Heat Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sea surface temperature anomalies\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0FrfW1TIqFM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Europe\u2019s summer heat wave wasn\u2019t just felt on land; the Mediterranean Sea saw surface temperatures as much as 5\u00b0C above the average. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2022\/09\/Sea_surface_temperature_anomalies\">The ESA\u2019s animated map<\/a>, above, shows the difference between sea surface temperatures from March to August 2022 and the 1985-2005 average for those months. The redder, the hotter than average. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/Mediterranean_Sea_hit_by_marine_heatwave\">ESA<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe\u2019s summer heat wave wasn\u2019t just felt on land; the Mediterranean Sea saw surface temperatures as much as 5\u00b0C above the average. The ESA\u2019s animated map, above, shows the difference between sea surface temperatures from&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/09\/the-mediterraneans-summer-heat-wave\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[230,8],"tags":[14,446,879,1591],"class_list":["post-1809198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-oceans","category-weather-and-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-esa","tag-global-warming","tag-mediterranean-sea","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5376,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2012\/07\/mapping-the-heat-wave\/","url_meta":{"origin":1809198,"position":0},"title":"Mapping the Heat Wave","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"3 July 2012","format":"link","excerpt":"Hotter than usual? 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