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
    3·
    1 day 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
      2·
      17 hours 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
        1·
        17 hours 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!

        • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
          1·
          8 hours ago

          Pfft, skyscrapers? In this stage of capitalism? No, you get huge office buildings, 3 floors at best, and you’ll marvel when they have the exact same marble floorings in the lobby, which is just rows of elevators and hallways. They will have huge windows and be the building equivalent of a cubicle inside. They will all be grouped together on the outskirts of cities replacing green places, and there will be no public transportation between them and residential areas. If you’re lucky you can get a cafe within walking distance, but you probably have to drive for lunch

          Oh, and that reminds me, you really need to get more proactive about making public transportation worse. No one should use it by choice, it needs to be slow and dirty. Only the poors should use it, to motivate them to become billionaires somehow

          Also, the Chunnel is now just for freight. If you want to go somewhere, you’ll use cars and planes exclusively