Iran city hits suffocating heat index of 165 degrees, near world record

[dixiegrrrrl]

In the city of Bandar Mahshahr (population of about 110,000 as of 2010), the air felt like a searing 165 degrees (74 Celsius) today factoring in the humidity.

To achieve today’s astronomical heat index level of 165, Bandar Mahshahr’s actual air temperature registered 115 degrees (46 Celsius) with an astonishing dew point temperature of 90 (32 Celsius).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/07/30/iran-city-hits-suffocating-heat-index-of-154-degrees-near-world-record/



Iran’s heat index is literally off the charts, and this is what it feels like

In the Persian Gulf, the water temperature is 90 degrees.

Capital Weather Gang reader, John Hagner, who lived in Dhahran for several years starting in 1992, shared his experience via email:

When the winds come off the Persian Gulf you just can’t imagine how awful it gets.

On the hottest and most humid days, you’d walk outside and it felt immediately like someone pressed a hot wet towel, like you sometimes get on airplanes, over your entire head. I wear glasses, and they’d immediately fog up. You sweat instantly. People just avoid being outside in any way they can. In the summers, my friends and I would become nocturnal as a way to beat the heat. Crime is basically non-existent, so my parents didn’t worry about us being out all night. I’d usually have breakfast with my dad and then sleep through the heat of the day, waking up when he got home from work. At night it was still stifling, but the edge was off.

Air conditioning is everywhere. You can trace the population explosion in the country directly to the advent of air conditioning – it allowed people to settle down and stop living the nomadic life that was common into the middle of the 20th century. We lived on a compound for employees of the Saudi national oil company, and they treated air conditioning repair like ambulances or fire trucks – they had crews on 24-hour call, and you could have them dispatched at a moment’s notice by calling the special air conditioning emergency hotline. In the summer, the air-conditioned school buses would stop outside every individual kid’s house, so they didn’t have to wait at a stop and could stay in the AC. Off the compound, air conditioning is still common, even for the poorest migrant workers there. Shopping was done in huge air-conditioned malls. The great open-air souks operate in the winter or very early in the morning on summer weekends

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/07/31/irans-heat-index-is-literally-off-the-charts-and-this-is-what-it-feels-like/

[irisblue]

1. Being an AC repairman must suck there. Those units are outside in the heat

No climate change, noooooo.

[mcar]

2. Wow!

[TBF]

3. How the GOP candidates feel about climate change -

Rand Paul: Paul said the earth goes through periods of time when the climate changes, but he’s “not sure anybody exactly knows why.”

Ted Cruz: The Texas senator is emphatically convinced the whole thing is a hoax. “The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming,”

Scott Walker: He signed a “no climate tax” pledge promising not to support any legislation that would raise taxes to combat climate change and has been a keynote speaker at the climate-denying Heartland Institute.

Jeb Bush: “I think global warming may be real,” he said in a 2011 interview. “It is not unanimous among scientists that it is disproportionately manmade. What I get a little tired of on the left is this idea that somehow science has decided all this so you can’t have a view.”

Paul Ryan: Paul Ryan: Ryan hasn’t made many explicit public comments on climate change, but in 2009 he wrote an op-ed decrying efforts to reduce carbon emissions and claiming that climate scientists are using “statistical tricks to distort their findings and intentionally mislead the public on the issue of climate change.”

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Creating reality, GOP style. Just say it and Presto! that makes it real.

Let's see....

I am the most beautiful and sexiest woman in the world...and awake each day full of chirpy and joy.


Hmmmmmmmm...doesn't seem to work here in the real world....

[Mnemosyne]

6. What a bunch of pea brains. nt

[LuvNewcastle]

4. The article also mentions a city in Iran

where many people live 2 or 3 stories underground. We should do more of that in the U.S. It would save a lot on energy costs in hot and cold areas. It could be very pleasant if the right plans were put in place.

[KittyWampus]

7. it would also be safer in tornado alley.

[LuvNewcastle]

8. Yes it would.

I didn't think about that. I don't think we would be able to avoid the hurricanes down here, though. We have such a high water table that it would be very difficult to dig down far enough. Hurricanes cause a lot of inland damage too, though, so they wouldn't have to go that far from the coastline to build underground.

[LongTomH]

9. The record high for Tulsa, OK was 115

Their record high of 115 was set in 1936. I'll swear it came close to that while I was living there, and Oklahoma has high humidity during the summer.

Oklahoma state's record high was 120 degrees!

[KrazyinKS]

10. Great Post-

It is a good subject for discussion. I think the next subject should be their diet. I understand in some Mideast countries the diet is rather poor. I think it would help us understand them better. Around here you can supplement your diet with a garden and raise chickens. You may be poor but you can still eat. Not so there.

[Dustlawyer]

11. I thought our 111 yesterday was bad! It is almost intolerable to be outside, much less

to work in it!

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. omg. that's rough