{"id":42463,"date":"2026-06-29T15:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/the-balkans-on-alert-while-europe-is-gripped-by-record-heat\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T15:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:06:16","slug":"the-balkans-on-alert-while-europe-is-gripped-by-record-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/the-balkans-on-alert-while-europe-is-gripped-by-record-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Balkans on alert while Europe is gripped by record heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/prizrenpost-og-78.png\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>A record heat wave has swept across Europe, while Balkan countries remained on alert Monday due to scorching temperatures, health warnings and increased fire danger, AFP reported.<\/p>\n<p>Although temperatures have started to drop in some parts of Western Europe, forecasts show that in the east of the continent the heat will return and intensify again during Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In Croatia, as in most across the Balkans, authorities have issued warnings of dangerous weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p>In Bosnia and Albania, temperatures are expected to reach 40 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n<p>According to AFP analysis, at least 130 million people in Europe are expected to face temperatures of 35 degrees Celsius or more today.<\/p>\n<p>This figure is significantly higher compared to the middle of last week, when the heat wave peaked in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the extreme weather hasn&#8217;t just been limited to heat. In Italy&#8217;s Alto Adige region, strong storms have caused flooding and landslides, the Guardian reported.<\/p>\n<p>In other parts of the country, high temperatures and extreme humidity continued on Monday.\/<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A record heat wave has swept across Europe, while Balkan countries remained on alert Monday due to scorching temperatures, health warnings and increased fire danger, AFP reported. Although temperatures have started to drop in some parts of Western Europe, forecasts show that in the east of the continent the heat will return and intensify again [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-42463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-brief"],"views":8,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42465,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42463\/revisions\/42465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}