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IT GETS HOT in the Middle East at this time of year. Too hot for most Irish people to bear, with summer temperatures reaching the high 30s and low 40s on an annual basis.
But this is just ridiculous.
A recent heatwave throughout the Middle East has seen temperatures of 51 degrees Celsius in Iraq.
And yesterday, the heat index (which accounts for humidity, and gives a sense of how it actually feels on the ground) reached a simply unimaginable 74 degrees in the Iranian city of Bandar-e-Mahshahr.
That’s SEVENTY-FOUR.
The US National Weather Service has this handy calculator, for figuring out what the heat index is.
It involves an equation that uses the air temperature, and humidity level (or dew point).
To put things in perspective, the temperature and humidity in Dublin Airport at 10pm tonight was 12 degrees and 91%.
So the heat index (how hot it feels) in Dublin tonight is…12 degrees.
Let’s try it with Bandar-e-Mahshahr, a city of 109,000 people in southwestern Iran, where the temperature today was 46 degrees, with a dew point of 32 degrees, according to the Washington Post.
The recent heatwave in the Middle East is being tracked by meteorologist Anthony Sagliani, who discovered a heat index of 68 degrees at Bandar-e-Mahshahr yesterday.
In Baghdad, daily high temperatures have been consistently in the high 40s for the past two weeks, and yesterday reached a record-equalling 51 degrees.
In fact, the Iraqi government announced a mandatory four-day national holiday, starting on Thursday, to help the public cope with the suffocating heat.
The highest temperature ever recorded in Ireland was 33.3 degrees Celsius, at Kilkenny Castle on 26 June, 1887.
The Bank Holiday weekend forecast calls for sunny spells and showers on Saturday, heavy rain on Sunday, and high winds and potentially heavy rain on Monday.
The highest temperature forecast will be 19 degrees, on Monday.
In Bandar-e-Mahshahr, it will hit 46 degrees tomorrow:
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You could fry an egg on the stones there, if you had an egg.
Brilliant, I was only thinking this, scrolled down, there’s Mark’s comment. Funny thing is, there will be lots of people of a certain age that won’t get that :-)
Sally O’Brien the pr!ck teaser.
Scorchio!
Damn right she was. Him heading off to that part of the Middle East that don’t have eggs, who knows when he’d be back and she wouldn’t even give him the shift before he left.
I think you would grill a steak – well done at that rate
and the way she might look at ya…
The money is good and the suntan is free. How’s the car? ……. Bet none of you will get that one :-)
.. And the way she might look at ye
Les, why is that funny? There will always be a certain amount of people that won’t get certain things simply because some are younger than others.
You’re right Gary it’s not funny, it’s tragic!
It’s not about age Gary.
Could they ever send 10 degrees our way.
God love the woman over there having to walk around head to foot in all black in that heat. It’s just not right
Yeah exactly! Then reveal their ankle by mistake and get branded as $luts…
Thats nothing. In Burka Babes 9 I saw a woman reading! It was so wrong, yet so right seeing her embrace those filthy decadent western ways.
@ stephenm…. that was in burka babe’s 8 not 9, you remember her! The one all in black, I’m sure it was her, they tried to ban that episode because it got wet and became “shiny”
Sure no wonder Calais is so jammed..
Ah lads…
We live in a great country
Don’t think they’re too keen on the ‘Dew point’ in Iran.
Long over dew I’d say. If it reaches 55 degrees Celsius then the region will become uninhabitable according to the experts.
You can sterilise water by keeping it above about 75 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes.
(It doesn’t actually have to reach the boiling point of 100 degrees to be sterilised.)
Any sustained temperature above 50 degrees Celsius is seriously life threatening for even the fittest and healthiest person.
Great drying weather
That’s a crazy temperature! I struggle to sleep here with the windows wide open at 12°
thats seriously hot.
Grand auld stretch in the evening to boot I’d say
Not a bad auld day for drying either…
more like burning them :-)
Imagine if that happened here, some might survive the shock but then they’d be melted by the sun!
And Irish Water would evaporate!!!
There’s always one
Sure the reservoirs would run dry. IW would have to build desalination plants.
What would they fare with worse? 74 degrees or the shock of our ‘Summer’?
I just started working with an Iranian who came here in March, he’s loving our weather…absolutely loving it!! I suppose there are perks with coming home after a long day with you shoe soles in one piece!
world record is 57 C. this headine is beyond stupid, but here i am looking at it. well done journal
To be fair it’s factoring in humidity. Although some people are beyond stupid, in particular those who post comments without reading the article.
to be fair i was commenting on the stupid headline, not the article.
and having previously read the article, it’s still stupid,
remember 1995?
Yes! I was 21 that summer…. Ooooooh what a summer… What weather! Was it two or three months of blissful sunshine?
So, actually 46 degrees. Sensationalist headline. This figure is like the “real feel” nonsense that accuweather do. Not an actual figure.
but it is real feel that’s the point. obviously you don’t have a clue that a combination of factors can effect temperature appearance
Absolutely parched here, how does one say ‘Pint bottle a cider there please with ice if ya dont mind’ in iranian
I would love to have the backbone to see that sunset or sunrise…42 degrees , that is amazing
So you got the shit job along with Michael, Dan? Could this site become any more like “the Sun”?
Its called climate change, in California they have had fireball rolling across the motorway, with people fleeing for their lives and the fires in Alaska and Canada have already consumed well over 12.1 million acres. Check this out
http://robertscribbler.com/2015/07/15/alaskas-2015-epic-burning-is-one-month-ahead-of-previous-worst-year-canada-conflagration-continues-eastern-siberia-wildfires-light-off/
Is the recent trend on The Journal of CAPITALISING headlines going to be a more common occurence? Also how about more of top quality journalism like “But this is just ridiculous.”
With our hottest temperature recorded way back in 1887 it makes you wonder if climate change is real at all.And as a previous poster stated as hot as Iran is its a long way from the 57 C recorded in Death valley California,well 6 degrees short of it
“13 of the hottest 15 years on record have all occurred since 2000 and that the odds of that happening randomly without the boost of global warming is 1 in 27 million.”
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/annual-climate-checkup-takeaways-19251
Global warming me bollix! We had the heat on the other night, in fookin JULY!!!!
In Ireland we have a mild climate thanks to the Golf Stream, which as a result of massive melting in Greenland and the Arctic could shut it down and we would end up with the same climate as Siberia being a similar distance from polar regions.
At least they get a summer..
*grumble grumble Iran Water grumble grumble*
Imagine all that solar energy they could use,but I suppose the nuclear option makes more sense.
Sunbathing in Burqas
We’re cool!
Hello it’s quite a regular occurrence. Is this article supposed to ruin our bank holiday even more….give me 14C any day over 54C
poor aul isisizzle lols
I saw, I went and Iran…
I hope Tehran has an Irish pub for paddy
WHO CARES, LOOK HOW THEY TREAT DOGS…
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/world/mideast/2015/04/20/dog-killings-in-iran-prompts-protest.html
Will be a lot hotter when Israel drops a few “presents”. ;) Bomb Iran.
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