Turkey sets new record of 50.5 degrees as Europe swelters – DW – 07/27/2025
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Turkey is hit by a record high temperature of 50.5 degrees as southeastern Europe reels under a heat wave and battles wildfires.

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.

  • KumaSudosa@feddit.dkEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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!

    • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
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      2 months 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

      • KumaSudosa@feddit.dkEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Amazing, finally I’ll have space to drive the tank I’ve always dreamed of and I’ll never have to worry about parking spots when I go to the new super mall to buy corn syrup-filled food! I hope we tear down all these old crap buildings and will have a serious building boom! Preferably mass-produced cardboard houses and glass skyscrapers!