Title: Scorching ‘heat dome’ over Middle East...
Posted on 08/01/2015 10:01:51 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Iran is buckling under the pressure of a massive heatwave passing across the Middle East, with temperatures soaring to nearly 70°C.
Scorching heat levels of 50°C have already paralyzed nearby Iraq, where officials were forced to call a four-day public holiday because it was too hot to work.
But the word “hot” has taken on an entirely new meaning in Iran’s city of Bandar Mahshahr, where it was claimed that the city’s heat index, or “feels-like temperature”, was among the highest ever recorded.
The heat index was recorded by a group of astonished weather experts, who predict the country could be enduring some of the hottest urban temperatures ever endured by mankind. …
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Really?
So for the past 150,000 years? Do they know what the temperature was there on July 23rd, 6,734 BC?
Dumb ass speculation and global warming hype.
Isn’t 165 the upper limit of human survival?
50c = 122F. I used to live in Palm Springs, CA where record was 123F
Ya know that isn’t really that hot, hell, in August 1945, 2 cities in Japan recorded temperatures of 6,000 DEGREES CELSIUS, About 10,000 degrees fahrenheit
Title: Scorching ‘heat dome’ over Middle East...
Maybe I’m a dreamer,
But I’m not the only one,
Maybe some day you’ll join us,
And Iran’s goose will be done.
“Super size shipment of whuppass for Teheran. Anyone here order a super size shipment of whuppass?”
Sure, but it's *dry* heat.
Thank you so much for that informative post. For a moment, I actually began to believe the “climate experts”, which shows that I was falling for bogus information.
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