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Iranian City Soars To Record 129F Degrees: Near Hottest On Earth in Modern Measurements (washingtonpost.com)
A city in southwest Iran posted the country's hottest temperature ever recorded Thursday afternoon, and may have tied the world record for the most extreme high temperature. From a report on The Washington Post: Etienne Kapikian, a forecaster at French meteorological agency MeteoFrance, posted to Twitter that the city of Ahvaz soared to "53.7C" (128.7 degrees Fahrenheit). Kapikian said the temperature is a "new absolute national record of reliable Iranian heat" (alternative, non-paywalled source) and that it was the hottest temperature ever recorded in June over mainland Asia. Iran's previous hottest temperature was 127.4. Weather Underground's website indicates the temperature in Ahvaz climbed even higher, hitting 129.2 degrees at both 4:51 and 5 p.m. local time. If that 129.2 degrees reading is accurate, it would arguably tie the hottest temperature ever measured on Earth in modern times.
How long can a human survive in 53.7C?
Who writes temperatures as "129 degrees"? This is a science and tech site, at very least, if you're going to use outmoded, outdated, antiquated, anachronistic, non-standard, and mostly unused units of measurement, indicate the unit.
It's like hell, probably to give the muslims a chance to get used to it
This is just an Iranian plot to destroy the US economy by getting us to ignore the sage advice of our leader, the great and wonderful Donald Trump, and make efforts to combat climate change.
In reality, the evil Iranian dictator, Mohammad Ali, forced everyone in the country to hold their cigarette buttes against the thermometers.
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Won't it be fun in coming decades when most of the Middle East beats it for less insufferably hot parts of the world?
Wow .. the water must be boiling in the streets!
Oh .. you mean 54 degrees .. like was mentioned in TFA
The information comes from Etienne Kapikian, a meteorologist with Meteo France, the French national weather service.
Officially, he said the temperature was 53.7 degrees Celsius, which is 128.7 degrees Fahrenheit. Iran’s previous hottest temperature was 127.4 degrees.
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Isn't Iran in the old Mesopotamia region? The one that almost died out way-back-when because of sudden climate change? I suppose it wouldn't be much of a surprise if that's the first region to go again in the next sudden climate change.
The hottest temperature recorded in Death Valley was 134 F on July 10, 1913, nearly 100 years ago, which is still modern times since people who were alive then are STILL alive. Good try, though.
Etienne Kapikian, a forecaster at French meteorological agency MeteoFrance, posted to Twitter that the city of Ahvaz soared to 53.7C (128.7 "degrees Fahrenheit").
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Where can I buy some of that for my house for the winter?
I have seen very close to that - my home town made it to 128 one summer.
The thing is it was such a shit-hole of a town there are no official weather stations there. All the official measurements were taken miles away in Odessa or other shit-hole towns they happened to put weather stations in or around. Pecos just was ignored, and was in a unique place geological being in a wide plane surrounded by mountain ranges and higher elevations, it created a type of hot-box effect. I was driving a 1983 GMC Sierra Classic at the time. The little orange needle that showed if you were in PRND1-2 melted in half and the spring pulled it to the left. My sisters walkman melted in it.
So, due to all of the locals reading their own thermometers and the local channel 6 (which was just a CGA graphics info readout) saying it got up to 128 I know it was there. Since Kermit Texas some miles to the North never made it that high we never officially made it there.
That was in 1994 I believe. As far as I know it hasn't passed 118 or so since. My dad tells me in 75 or so when he was working the feedlots it got up to about 132. I wasn't born yet so I certainly can't confirm that one.
At least in my little world both the hot and the cold extremes have tapered based on my own limited observations. The rains have become more erratic, but having moved away from that area my own observations are no longer current.
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The official highest recorded temperature is now 56.7C (134F), which was measured on 10 July 1913 at Greenland Ranch, Death Valley, California, USA. So yeah it's pretty high but call me when it gets to 135F.
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So, it has actually been hotter before, recently? When will this cooling trend stop?
As in "I Ran away from that country to get away from the heat".
Recorded high temperatures in Ahvaz in July are 129.2F, so this isn't the highest on record even for that city. It's a record for June, but, hey, it's the end of June. Ahvaz also holds the record as the "world's most air-polluted city". Incidentally, they do get snow in the winter. What a place!
You can fry an egg on the sidewalk. 129 degrees Celsius is crazy hot.
And you know what else is hot right now?
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Iranian City Soars To Record 129C Degrees. 129C = 264.2F. No, I don't think it was THAT hot!
Bash on NASCAR all you want but a few dozen cars racing a few times every year is nowhere near as polluting as the millions of daily commutes being done by regular people.
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Or, Iran is, at least.
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For a brief moment I thought... "What is 129 times the speed of light, and how did that city in Iran reach it?"
I'd say it rather makes it look HOT!
We've seen over and over again that the staff editors on Slashdot are not as technically versed as many of the readership. We see factual errors that, given sometimes only the tiniest bit of engineering or scientific background should have been readily caught. The current headline is an example. It is not possible in the current age that natural air temperatures would get above 100 C. Not anywhere near that. It's an absurdity to think that a maximum new temperature of 129C had been recorded. It shows ignorance or ineptitude.
It shows adherence to a long standing tradition of successfully trolling readers over and over again to click more and leave messages they know ahead of time people will write. It makes the little counter on their dashboard run faster.
Dude, it's a capital C.
My Grandmother used to tell me all the time. "You should not 'F' what you can't 'C', o 'K'. She had such hot sayings.
https://weather.com/news/news/death-valley-new-world-temperature-record-20120913
"Death Valley, Calif. now holds the record for the hottest temperature ever recorded in the world with a maximum temperature of 134 degrees."
Why is the figure in Celsius given with scare-quotes? Both Iran and France, and 95% of the world, uses Celsius - not really anything scary about it.
Well, since climate change is a hoax, they must be using the wrong methods to read temperature... Maybe is really -20 degrees....
Talking to buddies of mine who were in Desert Storm, they regularly experienced temperatures in the 130. Not sure why this is getting any press at all. Seems like a lot of fear mongering to me.
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Don't forget that in the last decade or so, more and more cars, trucks, and other vehicles run their headlight constantly. You can't tell me that the additional current draw and the lights themselves aren't helping keep the temperature up.
When publishing in s cie nce journal i wouod expect kelvin, in normal news celsius is perfectly acceptable, and i would say fahrenheit too, as long a s the writer is not an idiot and precise the measurement unit . And yes celsius is the modern acceptable unit used by the crushing majority of human on earth.
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Who writes temperatures as "129 degrees"?
Pretty much anyone/everyone in the US. Fahrenheit units are assumed here, especially in contexts were Celsius would make little sense.
This is a science and tech site, at very least, if you're going to use outmoded, outdated, antiquated, anachronistic, non-standard, and mostly unused units of measurement, indicate the unit.
No this is a discussion/debate site which historically (less lately) has focused on tech. It also is based in the US and has a predominantly US based readership and I assure you nobody in the US was confused at all. I've be very happy to switch to metric but if someone gives an air temperature of 129 degrees I'm fairly comfortable assuming they aren't talking about Celsius units.
The US isn't going to go metric any time soon. Get over it. Yes it's a good idea and Celsius would be better but so are lots of things that won't happen.
Must be that global cooling!
Okay, I got that out of my system. Move along, nothing to see here.
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Who cares if it is "livable"?
People who want to live.
It regularly gets 110F here in summer and people still live. In Canada it often gets below 0F and people live.
You seem to have missed the point. 110F is survivable. 110C is not.
The measurements 0F to 100F were based upon what at the time were perceived as the min and max temperatures the weather reached in Europe. That's not very scientific, even if it is meaningful.
That's not true at all. "The lower defining point, 0 F, was established as the temperature of a solution of brine made from equal parts of ice and salt. Further limits were established as the melting point of ice (32 F) and his best estimate of the average human body temperature (96 F, about 2.6 F less than the modern value due to a later redefinition of the scale). The scale is now usually defined by two fixed points: the temperature at which water freezes into ice is defined as 32 F, and the boiling point of water is defined to be 212 F, a 180 F separation, as defined at sea level and standard atmospheric pressure."
You can perceive the difference just about in 1C change. You can't perceive the difference in 1F change. A Centigrade is more meaningful to a human being as far as perception goes.
Again not true at all. I absolutely can perceive a 1F difference in temperature and so can most people. In fact we can detect temperature difference much smaller than 1F in many circumstances. If anything centigrade is a bit too coarse grained in that regard.
Because that's who decides who's going to be US president, and consequently person who can do the most about the global warming
Its getting hot in here; so take off all your clothes....
the humidity as the saying goes. Looked like the avg humidity in Ahvaz yesterday was 22%. The southeast and midwest routinely see 80-90% this time of year. That's when it gets uncomfortable.
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The record is currently 134 degrees F from July 10, 1913, in Death Valley...
But that doesn't fit the narrative of "modern AGW times"...
Even in more modern times, back in 2013, Death Valley reached 53.9C (besting this latest temperature in Ahvaz by 0.2C)... Of course back in 2013, we weren't as modern as we are today...
Anything for click-bait these days, right?
Recently read some research about this. The switch to LED bulbs alone has reduced the energy use to where you can keep a LED bulb on all the time while driving and typically use less energy than traditional bulbs on only at dusk/dark. Additionally, (more importantly actually) DRL (daytime running lights) have been shown statically to reduce accidents. In addition to deaths/injuries reduced, the reduction in replacement parts, and the energy that would have been used to produce/transport them, more than makes up for the energy used by DRLs.
I have friends in Saudi who tell about 135 at high humidity. This doesn't impress me much.
Haha. What's her number?
Look, I could get confusion if we were below a threshold, say -10 to 35, but if the number is high enough it becomes obvious that the measurement is in Fahrenheit. Even with those numbers, it's pretty obvious that if Arizona is 36 during the day in July.. it's frigging Celsius!
Here I came to see if anyone had cracked any good jokes about Iran and Hell, yet find idiotic statements like yours modded insightful.. *sigh*
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> Weather Underground's website . . .
Yeah, well there's the problem. Earlier this month Weather Underground called it 160F here in the northwest USA.
http://imgur.com/h4wHnAa
Fortunately, with the breeze and low humidity, it only felt like 150F.
A base 12 system is more complex than a base 10 system. Fahrenheit and Kelvin both have historical and scientific reasons for maintenance. So what you are really asking is that we dumb it down for you.
I believe you meant something other than insulting people, but don't quite get that one either.
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As in not where I am. :)
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I though modern measurements were in Celsius
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/0... (nytimes, may be pay-walled) All the people in this region are playing with fire. While they’re fighting over who is caliph, who is the rightful heir to the Prophet Muhammad from the seventh century — Sunnis or Shiites — and to whom God really gave the holy land, Mother Nature is not sitting idle. She doesn’t do politics — only physics, biology and chemistry. And if they add up the wrong way, she will take them all down. The only “ism” that will save them is not Shiism or Islamism but “environmentalism” — understanding that there is no Shiite air or Sunni water, there is just “the commons,” their shared ecosystems, and unless they cooperate to manage and preserve them (and we all address climate change), vast eco-devastation awaits them all.
They've got the best temperatures - the highest. Nobody has higher temperatures.
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To people saying water doesn't boil. Actually, water does boil in the streets. the 53 celsius is temperature without presense of sunlight. in sunlight we're talking well above 90 degrees celsius, wish I was joking but I'm not.
If you just sit in a car without turning the AC on for half an hour the belt buckle can leave a mark on your arm for the rest of your life, talking 3rd degree burn here. The steering wheel can get stuck to your hand if you put your hand on it directly. my father's car has a LOT of his finger prints permanently molded into the plastic. You can cook omlets on the dashboard or on the roof.
If there is a fly still alive in that weather --this one is actually funny-- if it lands on a car or any other metalic surface, it can't take off again.
Only glass covered solar panels work, other types just melt. The wiring almost always melts too.
Car batteries die a lot.
Plastic bottles, sprays, cans, jars and anything with a lid exploding is just normal. One time, After few hours of leaving the car in sunlight I found it covered with a fine white powder as if it was painted, after hours of thinking, finding small pieces of metal and recalling who has been in the car with what items we figured out it was a deodorant spray left in the car under a tissue box in the sleeve behind the driver seat.
You just can't have cds in the car. they fuse together like slices of butter melting.
We don't have cement buildingi or cement park chairs. They just turn to dust REALLY fast.
and to those saying fix it with water, there isn't even enough water to drink.
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but folks are still going to get heat stroke and die. I've read articles about folks in India working through the heat and getting kidney failure because they didn't drink enough. They couldn't stop working, needed the money...
Those kind of conditions are going to create widespread social unrest. Demagogues will take advantage of it and rise to power and start wars. Stuff like this is how you get WWIII.
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Temperatures above 60 C are not unknown in outback Australia. Probably the same in Saudi Arabia.
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I was born there. The true joke was that someone bought a thermometer that was rated for 50c .. and it melted...
It is hot and humid there. Good ol times
You are used to F and that's all. C is better because it's an international standard. You are just being parochial here.
If you want me to pretend to convince you:
"I've covered this many times before. Celsius is the best unit for weather temperature because:
0C is freezing, 100C is for making a cup of tea.
0F is ... dunno ... don't use dumbarse obsolete measurements. Same for 100F. It's something arbitrary."
So there. Done.
134 degrees Fahrenheit
This summer has been a scorcher in many parts of the nation, but this sweat-inducing heat has nothing on the highest temperature ever recorded in the United States, the whopping 134 degrees Fahrenheit that sent the mercury soaring in Death Valley on July 10, 1913.
Before the climate change moneybaggers had even been born even! When CO2 levels were a FRACTION of what they allegedly are today...
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