{"id":1099,"date":"2026-01-09T02:23:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/heatwave-engulfs-australias-south-east-bringing-catastrophic-fire-conditions-not-seen-since-black-summer\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T02:23:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:23:50","slug":"heatwave-engulfs-australias-south-east-bringing-catastrophic-fire-conditions-not-seen-since-black-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/heatwave-engulfs-australias-south-east-bringing-catastrophic-fire-conditions-not-seen-since-black-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Heatwave engulfs Australia\u2019s south-east bringing catastrophic fire conditions not seen since black summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne mercury expected to hit 43C with higher temperatures inland and a total fire ban in place for all VictoriaFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastDire bushfire conditions threatened south-eastern states on Friday as unrelenting heat bore down on large parts of Australia and Victorians prepared for catastrophic conditions not seen since 2019-20.Melbourne\u2019s maximum temperature was forecast to reach 43C on Friday, and up to 45C in some suburbs. The city was 38.7C at midday and reached 40C by 1pm. Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne mercury expected to hit 43C with higher temperatures inland and a total fire ban in place for all VictoriaFollow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}