Turkey’s Environment Ministry said meteorologists had registered a reading of 50.5 degrees Celsius (122.9 degrees Fahrenheit) in the southeast of the country, setting a nationwide record.
The record temperature was registered on Friday at Silopi, the ministry said in a post on X on Saturday.
Silopi is 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Turkey’s borders with Iraq and Syria.
The previous heat record, registered in August 2023, was 49.5 degrees Celsius.
Winter is dying. It used to get very cold, now it gets mildly cold. I think in another decade or two there will be no more winters.
Mosquitos and snow disappear. Conspiracy idiots around me still don’t believe that climate change and pollution exists.
Mosquitos are worse at my camp in the swamp. The tiny ponds dried up, killed the dragonfly larva, no dragonflies this year. Leaving in a bit to lay traps.
camp in the swamp
Are you currently detained at Alligator Alcatraz?
Global warming causes weather events to intensify. >Fall and spring< are dying first. While there will be more mild winters as it goes, when we do get winters they will come with record lows and record snowfall -like that one in Texas.
As winters die out, (wet season) Hurricane season will lengthen, and then we will lose winter as everything becomes more…tropical. The world will shift to what the tropics are used to - hot season and rainy season. With warming powering them, hurricanes will be monsterously large.
My town broke Florida’s all-time record for snow last winter, 10" from mid-morning till near sundown That’s a direct result of hot air from the other side of the planet slamming the polar vortex.
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Jeebus. That’s fucking wild.
This summer has been like summers when I was a kid. I’m a few hundred miles north of where I was.
(Neighbors look at us like we’re crazy when working outside in the mid 90s, humidity is only like 60-70%.) Heat tolerance is a superpower, apparently.
Canada just had a record winter, global warming makes extremes more extreme
No it’s a warming of the planet with extreme weather events.
If you think winter is going to get colder, you’re wrong.you might get more blizzards and storms, but global warming means the planet gets WARMER overall (which is part of what causes the extreme weather events).
That global warming huh?
Couldn’t be, some places still get snow.
Nooo no no… We just have been breaking the global heat record for every year for over a decade stright almost proportionally to how much greenhouse gases the fossil-fuel industries put out in the atomsphere and only ever since they started doing it.
20 something more degrees and it’ll be good enough to eat
If I could bet $100 million with x99 margin leverage that next year will be hotter, I’d be rich like a oil execitive; but I’m not an oil exec to have $100M in their bank… lol who would benefit more if the world boiled to noninhabitability oh… shit… you don’t say
50.5 degrees sounds pleasantly chilly
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