{"id":174762,"date":"2026-08-11T14:45:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T06:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=174762"},"modified":"2026-08-11T14:45:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T06:45:33","slug":"hk-swelters-through-its-hottest-day-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=174762","title":{"rendered":"HK swelters through its hottest day ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1865548_1_M_20260809170022.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>Hong Kong on Sunday sweltered through its hottest day ever with a scorching 36.9 degrees Celsius recorded at the Observatory in the afternoon, the highest since records began in 1884.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Observatory had recorded a reading of 36.7 C as of 1.15pm, beating the previous record of 36.6 C in 2017 before Typhoon Hato hit the city&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1865548-20260809.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong on Sunday sweltered through its hottest day e [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}