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Topic | Iranian city soars to record 129 degrees: hottest recorded in modern Earth |
Ray_Dorset 06/30/17 8:45:36 PM #13: | weapon_d00d816 posted... The excessively hot air over Ahvaz, a city of 1.1 million people, felt even more stifling due to high humidity. As the temperature climbed into the high 120s, the dew point, a measure of humidity, peaked in the low 70s; a high level for the desert location (due to air flow from the Persian Gulf, to the south). The heat index — a measure of how hot it feels factoring in the humidity — exceeded 140 degrees. This combination of heat and humidity was so extreme that it was beyond levels the heat index was designed to compute. ![]() Took that picture in an attic I worked in last summer. Puts the heat index at roughly 135-137 degrees. It wasn't fun ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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