{"id":280250,"date":"2026-09-06T10:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T10:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280250\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T10:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T10:48:07","slug":"philadelphia-weather-summer-2026-among-warmest-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280250\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia weather: Summer 2026 among warmest on record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warm nights were a \u201cbig factor\u201d in the impact of the heat waves that hit the Philadelphia region this July, Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were not getting below 70 degrees \u2014 in some cases \u2026 we weren\u2019t getting below 80 degrees at night,\u201d she said. \u201cOur bodies are really relying on a chance to recover during the overnight hours before facing additional heat during the next day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said even though meteorological summer ended Aug. 31, residents of the Philadelphia region should be prepared to take precautions if temperatures rise again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though the peak of the summer has passed, we could still have impacts with extreme heat,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warm nights were a \u201cbig factor\u201d in the impact of the heat waves that hit the Philadelphia region&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74472,69,71,70,5206],"class_list":["post-280250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-extreme-heat","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-whyy-news-climate-desk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}