Baghdad soars to 125 blistering degrees, its highest temperature on record

[steve2470]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/07/29/baghdad-iraq-heat-record/

Record high temperatures have been plaguing the Middle East, the mercury soaring to extreme levels during a blistering and unforgiving heat wave. Baghdad surged to its highest temperature ever recorded Tuesday.

Tuesday’s preliminary high of 125.2 degrees (51.8 Celsius) in Iraq’s capital city shatters its previous record of 123.8 degrees set on July 30, 2015 for any day of the year.

On Wednesday, Baghdad followed up with a temperature of 124 degrees, its second highest temperature on record. On Monday, it had reached 123 degrees.

The crippling heat forced many residents indoors, and street sellers had to seek whatever shade they could find. With the state electricity grid failing, many households were relying on generators to power fridges, fans or air conditioning units, the machines adding a guttural hum to the city’s already-noisy streets.

[orwell]

1. Don't worry...

...climate change is a hoax.

So sayeth Don the Con.

It's their new "hoax"...after the Corna...Virus!

See...don't you feel cooler already...

[procon]

2. People are going to die in that heat.

On top of everything else they have endured, people are at the mercy of the changing climate. Their food crops will fail and their livestock will die, existing water resources will become scarce and difficult to obtain.

What do they do? Migrate to less harsh region; where would that be for poor people with no transportation and limited money?

It's only going to get worse.

[in2herbs]

4. Some people on DU have downplayed the heat in AZ as being nothing new but when the nighttime

temps are 90 degrees and above the homeless and the domestic and wild animals can't cool off at night to be able to survive the daytime temps. Right now, at 2:30 pm, it is 107 where I live, Phx is generally hotter by 5 to 7 degrees.

I agree with your post. Biden must make this a priority (along with all the other priorities he must attend to because of the POS in the WH.

[procon]

5. I've lived in California's Mojave Desert for 40+ years

and the climate has changed drastically over time. It gets hot earlier in the year and stays around longer these days. There was the occasional 110 degree day, but that was offset by a predictable afternoon breeze that cooled things off.

Now we start the day at 6am with temps already in the high 80s or 90s because it never cooled down at night. From there we're hitting the high teens with some areas getting into record breaking temps in the 120+ range. The afternoon breeze doesn't always show up so everything just bakes in the unrelenting heat.

Plants that grew fairly well here are drying, not for lack of water but the heat. The farms are mostly gone. And no one is treating this as a life threatening event.

[in2herbs]

6. At 5 am this morning it was 88 degrees. Right now, at 4:20 pm it is 109 degrees. My neighbor

has a black horse and a black mini -- both stand out in the blazing sun all day long, day after day, week after week. Knowing and seeing this raises my BP more than the POS in the WH.

[procon]

7. Call SPCA or animal control Re: regarding the horses.

Most animal welfare laws provide for some sort of minimal standards for food, water and shelter from the elements. They can force compliance or confiscate the horses.

Don't just call them once, you need to be persistent so they understand the situation is bad.

Good luck!

[qazplm135]

3. I remember being in Kuwait waiting to go home

from Iraq in 2005 and I'm pretty sure it got to around 120 and I tell you, oppressive does not begin to describe it.

Even though there was a movie theater and shopping and whatnot a five minute walk away, I spent most of my time on an uncomfortable cot for three days waiting to go home because going outside for five minutes was such a brutal experience.