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.

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    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.

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      16 days ago

      Mosquitos and snow disappear. Conspiracy idiots around me still don’t believe that climate change and pollution exists.

      • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        15 days ago

        I rode in an Uber once where the driver was a conspiracy theorist. He said that global warming was made up by the liberal elite to make people gay. And then without taking a breath, talked about how every summer seems to get warmer than the year before.

    • 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒@lemmy.world
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      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.

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      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.

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      You know that the warmer countries usually have ways to deal with it, including many having AC, right? Talking about “Europeans” collectively doesn’t make sense. Why would I waste money and resources on AC in Sweden or the UK to deal with our two weeks of warm weather? Our homes are instead built to deal with cold conditions.

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        14 days ago

        Don’t worry, Trump is over there to teach you how to do things the American way. See, you use the cheapest lumber, plywood and pine boards, and then you cover it all in plastic sheeting. Then you put up drywall, which is about the weakest material known to man, and cover the interior walls with no plaster or anything

        Then what you want to do is really crank the plastic up to 11. Plastic siding, expanding plastic foam in the walls, just fill up the attic with it

        And you want to make the designs very basic, they should all look nearly identical

        And now you have a house that will require constant A/C or heating, because it’s a plastic bubble with terrible air circulation. Also, you have to worry about the whole thing rotting if it gets too damp

        But if you do everything right, it might last 50 whole years

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          Oh how lovely that sounds! I am beginning to tire of my old brick building… I hope this is part of that totally equal trade deal the EU just made with our saviour so we can crank up the Americanisation!

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            13 days ago

            Yep! Look forward to bleached meat and widening all your roads to accommodate pointlessly enormous trucks you currently need a CDL to drive

            You’re going to have to rip up everything and redo it all just for that

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    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