Yesterday I wrote a story about the heat now affecting the Middle East.
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Though unofficial, the rise in Iran’s heat index is to challenge the reported highest heat index ever recorded.
(This article, originally published Thursday evening, updated Friday morning.)Wherever you live or happen to travel to, never grumble about the heat and humidity again.
This calculator showed a heat index on Thursday of 159 degrees Fahrenheit, though that is not used in all countries. On Thursday, the actual air temperature reached 109 degrees Fahrenheit, or 43 degrees Celsius, with a dew point of 90 degrees Fahrenheit, or 43 degrees Celsius. Chart showing temperature, dew point in index in Bandar Mahshahr over last 36 hours, using National Weather Service heat index value calculations. This town has a population of 110,000.
A 165 degrees Fahrenheit heat index in Iran on Friday was close to breaking the world record of 178 degrees Fahrenheit in 2003. The 165 degree heat index was the second highest ever on Earth.
A port city located in Khuzestan province in southwestern Iran, Bandar Mahshahr has its proximity to the Persian Gulf to blame for the incredible temperature readings, AccuWeather meteorologist Anthony Sagliani said. This would be high enough to rival the all-time global record, according to the Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang blog, citing records maintained by weather historian Christopher Burt.
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“Around the Persian Gulf, where water temperatures are in the lower to middle 90s [30s C], the extreme heat combines with incredibly high humidity to produce astounding apparent temperatures”, he said.
