{"id":67802,"date":"2026-11-09T14:05:05","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T10:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=67802"},"modified":"2026-11-09T14:05:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T10:05:05","slug":"austria-records-1008-heat-related-deaths-in-summer-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2026\/11\/09\/austria-records-1008-heat-related-deaths-in-summer-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria records 1,008 heat-related deaths in summer 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Austria recorded an unprecedented number of heat-related deaths last summer, with an estimated 1,008 fatalities, the highest figure since the country began monitoring heat-related mortality in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) announced today that the estimated number of heat-related deaths exceeded 1,000 for the first time between June and September 2026, amid exceptional heatwaves across Austria that broke previous temperature records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The record number of heat-related deaths coincided with Austria&#8217;s hottest summer since records began. More than 100 weather stations operated by GeoSphere Austria recorded new temperature highs, according to meteorological data. Temperatures reached 41\u00b0C in the capital, Vienna, surpassing the previous national record of 40.5\u00b0C set in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austria recorded an unprecedented number of heat-related deaths last summer, with an estimated 1,008 fatalities, the highest figure since the country began monitoring heat-related mortality in 2017. The Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) announced today that the estimated number of heat-related deaths exceeded 1,000 for the first time between June and September &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":67803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67804,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67802\/revisions\/67804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}