Sizzling Pakistan: 53.0°C!

Su Campu

Some major heat throughout Pakistan and India today!

1 Sibi (Pakistan) 53.0 °C
2 Jacobabad (Pakistan) 52.5 °C
3 Pad Idan (Pakistan) 52.5 °C
4 Nawabshah (Pakistan) 52.2 °C
5 Rohri (Pakistan) 50.0 °C
6 Bahawalnagar (Pakistan) 49.5 °C
7 Ganganagar (India) 49.3 °C
8 Sargodha (Pakistan) 49.0 °C
9 Khanpur (Pakistan) 48.8 °C
10 Kota Aerodrome (India) 48.4 °C

Su Campu

Actually, according to the Paksitan Met Office, 53.5°C was reached at Mohen Jo Daro!:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

http://www.pakmet.com.pk/FFD/cp/evening.htm

Su Campu

Su Campu wrote: »

Actually, according to the Paksitan Met Office, 53.5°C was reached at Mohen Jo Daro!:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

http://www.pakmet.com.pk/FFD/cp/evening.htm

The Indus Valley!?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilization#Late_Harappan

A possible natural reason for the IVC's decline is connected with climate change that is also signaled for the neighboring areas of the Middle East: The Indus valley climate grew significantly cooler and drier from about 1800 BCE, linked to a general weakening of the monsoon at that time

Monsoons are driven by rising air caused by heat. One reason why a warmer planet 6,000 years ago had a green sahara and why global warming isnt all as bad as Al Gore says

Deep Easterly

Su Campu wrote: »

Some major heat throughout Pakistan and India today!
1 Coleraine (N.I) 55.9 °C
2 Sibi (Pakistan) 53.0 °C
3 Jacobabad (Pakistan) 52.5 °C
4 Pad Idan (Pakistan) 52.5 °C
5 Nawabshah (Pakistan) 52.2 °C
6 Rohri (Pakistan) 50.0 °C
7 Bahawalnagar (Pakistan) 49.5 °C
8 Ganganagar (India) 49.3 °C
9 Sargodha (Pakistan) 49.0 °C
10 Khanpur (Pakistan) 48.8 °C
11 Kota Aerodrome (India) 48.4 °C

Wow! :eek:

Su Campu

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Quote:
Originally Posted by Su Campu
Some major heat throughout Pakistan and India today!
1 Coleraine (N.I) 55.9 °C
2 Sibi (Pakistan) 53.0 °C
3 Jacobabad (Pakistan) 52.5 °C
4 Pad Idan (Pakistan) 52.5 °C
5 Nawabshah (Pakistan) 52.2 °C
6 Rohri (Pakistan) 50.0 °C
7 Bahawalnagar (Pakistan) 49.5 °C
8 Ganganagar (India) 49.3 °C
9 Sargodha (Pakistan) 49.0 °C
10 Khanpur (Pakistan) 48.8 °C
11 Kota Aerodrome (India) 48.4 °C


Wow! :eek:

:D But there was snow there too...well, on the hills behind anyway!

pauldry

I wouldnt say anybody got near that in the Boards Forecast Contest for May

Timistry

You could use the bonnet of a car as a BBQ in that kind of heat!

Danno

Still a bit way off Libya's 57.8c world record set in 1922. I experienced 54c myself in a glasshouse in the summer of 1995. It was over 31c outside that day. Got goose pimples from the sudden temp change when I went out side. The humidity was almost unbearable!

M.T. Cranium

A new record for Pakistan set on the 26th (53.5 C) according to updated information on Wikipedia (I know ...) :cool:

Close but not quite a record for all of Asia according to that source, 55 C was recorded in Iran.

We were near death here last summer when it hit 34 C to break our all-time record, and I've seen 45 C in Arizona (although that felt no hotter due to the low humidity) ... but 53.5 they can keep thanks.

DOCARCH

23.5c and I'm in a bit of a sweat! Just can't imagine another 30c on top of that!

hotwhiskey

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

A new record for Pakistan set on the 26th (53.5 C) according to updated information on Wikipedia (I know ...) :cool:

Close but not quite a record for all of Asia according to that source, 55 C was recorded in Iran.

We were near death here last summer when it hit 34 C to break our all-time record, and I've seen 45 C in Arizona (although that felt no hotter due to the low humidity) ... but 53.5 they can keep thanks.

That's HOT! Two years ago was in Croatia and Bosnia were they experienced a heat wave it reached 47c on many a day and the Humanity was in the high 80's. One thing i will always remember is when you had a shower there was no point drying yourself i never sweated has much in all my life. We got home and getting of the plane at Dublin airport we cheered it was 14c and raining.

positron

I have experienced up to 48 or may be a bit more in Chennai, India.

While anything over 35 is very hot, when mercury went above 40, I could feel the difference between every degree. There were this one week where temperature that went 45, 47, 46, 47, 48 - I could tell the difference in temperature each day, and step out of the air-conditioned area, the heat is like walking into a brick wall - you can really feel it.

pauldry

Experienced 49c in Vegas. It was 32c at night then too. We spent the whole time in the Aircon hotel as a result

smcgiff

hotwhiskey wrote: »

the Humanity was in the high 80's.

The poor old dears!

For me anything over 20c is death valley territory

Su Campu

hotwhiskey wrote: »

That's HOT! Two years ago was in Croatia and Bosnia were they experienced a heat wave it reached 47c on many a day and the Humanity was in the high 80's.

I hate to be pedantic but it is impossible to have relative humidities in the 80s with a temperature of 47°C. That would imply a dewpoint of 42°C, which is unheard of anywhere in the world.

The highest dewpoint ever recorded was 35°C in Dharhan, Saudi Arabia, in 2003. Gulf areas can regularly have dewpoints around 30°C in late summer, but not in Europe. The highest relative humidity it reached when you were there may have been above 80%, but at the coolest time of the day, around dawn. Remember, the hottest part of the day usually has the lowest relative humidity, and vice versa.

Su Campu

A Pakistani Met Office Press Release...

Press Release

Record breaking heat in Pakistan

Highest maximum temperature was recorded 53.5°C in MohenjuDaro and 53 in Sibbi.

Extreme heat likely to subside from Thursday evening

Record breaking extreme heat observed in the plain areas of Sindh and Balochistan on Wednesday. Most plain areas of the country remained in the grip of Loo today. Highest maximum temperature was recorded 53.5°C in MohenjoDaro and 53 in Sibbi, 52.5 in Jacobabad, Larkana and Padidan.52 in Nawabshah, and 50 in Rahim yar Khan, Dadu and Sukkar.
Previous extreme heat wave conditions were observed in 1998 in the country.
The current extreme heating is likely to subside from Thursday afternoon/evening after dust storm /isolated rain over Northern Punjab, upper Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa, Gilgit-Baltistan, Kashmir and Islamabad.
Today’s Maximum Temperatures of some other Cities:
Mianwali= 49, Bhakar = 48.5, Faisalabad, Jhelum=48, Mandibhaudin, D.G,Khan, Lahore, Multan, Bannu , D.I.Kahan =47, Bhawalpur, Gujaranwala=46,Islamabad=44, Karachi=36, Peshawar=44, Quetta=38, Muzaffarabad=44°C

thetonynator

39/40 was the hottest i ever experiences, heatwave in france in 2003. Aircon meant the car ad the pool were the only comfortable places!!!

hotwhiskey

Su Campu wrote: »

I hate to be pedantic but it is impossible to have relative humidities in the 80s with a temperature of 47°C. That would imply a dewpoint of 42°C, which is unheard of anywhere in the world.

The highest dewpoint ever recorded was 35°C in Dharhan, Saudi Arabia, in 2003. Gulf areas can regularly have dewpoints around 30°C in late summer, but not in Europe. The highest relative humidity it reached when you were there may have been above 80%, but at the coolest time of the day, around dawn. Remember, the hottest part of the day usually has the lowest relative humidity, and vice versa.

Yes 80%, sorry i was meant to say 80%.

hotwhiskey

Ooh! and we had no Air con were we were staying really unbearable, the only place were we got air conditioning was on the bus to the airport and the Hospital when we got dehydrated.:cool:

hotwhiskey

hotwhiskey wrote: »

Ooh! and we had no Air con were we were staying really unbearable, the only place were we got air conditioning was on the bus to the airport and the Hospital when we got dehydrated.:cool:

I didn't need any HotWhiskeys there!:D

Su Campu

Holy mother of f...

Just take a look at the Heat index at Sibi (Heat Index = temperature perceived by humans/animals when effects of humidity and windspeed are taken into account).

Temperature of 46.7 and dewpoint 34.7°C combined to give a heat index of....wait for it....

84°C!!!! :eek:


The dewpoint is higher than skin temperature, so sweat will not evaporate, hence the body cannot cool, and therefore it's like being in an oven at 84°C!

Let nobody here ever complain again that it's too hot here at 25°C!!

df1985

ah but sure it was 59 degrees in coleraine last week......


hottest i experienced was also las vegas, in july a few years back.into the 40's, amazing how fast you get burnt in that sort of heat.

thetonynator

df1985 wrote: »

ah but sure it was 59 degrees in coleraine last week......


hottest i experienced was also las vegas, in july a few years back.into the 40's, amazing how fast you get burnt in that sort of heat.

fahrenheit . . .:pac:

wile1000

df1985 wrote: »

hottest i experienced was also las vegas, in july a few years back.into the 40's, amazing how fast you get burnt in that sort of heat.

As a native Australian from near Melbourne, low/mid 40s is as high as I've got too. But relative humidity would sometimes get into single figure %ages. Barely a drop of moisture in the air and ideal conditions for fires. :eek:

But also great conditions for just sitting outside under the tree with a water spray bottle - evaporative cooling never works better. Beaches often become *less* busy when it gets so hot.

owenc

Well it was over 40c in florida when i was there two years ago and it felt fine. I didn't burn or anything and i was out the whole time, i never seem to burn or tan and i don't know why i never feel hot either. Last week i was out all day and it was like 25c and i didn't burn,tan nothing and ones i knew came in like beetroots. My dad opens all the windows at 20c and says its roasing, i don't know why everyone always gets roasting for me seriously it would have to be about 50c for me to feel roasting, i never sweat.

Su Campu

Today's Asian Top 10....

1 Multan (Pakistan) 50.0 °C
2 Rohri (Pakistan) 50.0 °C
3 Nawabshah (Pakistan) 49.5 °C
4 Khanpur (Pakistan) 49.2 °C
5 Sibi (Pakistan) 49.0 °C
6 Bahawalnagar (Pakistan) 48.5 °C
7 Jaisalmer (India) 48.0 °C
8 Pad Idan (Pakistan) 48.0 °C
9 Hissar (India) 47.9 °C
10 Bikaner (India) 47.6 °C

EDIT: The Paki Met have put today's max at 51.6°C in Mohen Jo Daro again, which isn't reported in the synoptic observations above so musn't be a synoptic station, but is still a legitimate reading.

Trogdor

Very interesting stuff Su! Thanks for the updates:)

owenc wrote: »

it would have to be about 50c for me to feel roasting, i never sweat.

Quote of the year:D

Deep Easterly

trogdor wrote: »

Quote of the year:D

Owenc is a gem! Boards.ie would a duller be place without him

Su Campu

Kuwait graps the headlines with temperatures up to 53.7°C Tuesday! :eek::eek:


1 Mitribah (Kuwait)53.7 °C
2 Jahra (Kuwait)51.8 °C
3 Shuwaikh (Kuwait)51.6 °C
4 Abdaly (Kuwait)51.5 °C
5 Sulaibiya (Kuwait)51.2 °C
6 Kuwait Internationalairport (Kuwait)50.6 °C
7 Warba (Kuwait)50.5 °C
8 Minagish (Kuwait)50.2 °C
9 Bubiyan (Kuwait)50.1 °C
10 Ahwaz (Iran)49.8 °C

Oink

What the hell can you do when it's 50 degrees?

I remember standing in the shade when it was 37 degrees. The pool was just 2.5m away, but I never made it. I just sat down where I was and tried not to move... I guess it was a choice between swimming in a frying pan or sitting in an oven...

Su Campu

Oink wrote: »

What the hell can you do when it's 50 degrees?

Dewpoints were around -1°C so that meant relative humidity of only around 4%, so while it was hot, there are cooler but more humid places that would FEEL hotter (the 84°C heat index in Pakistan above, for instance!!)

Stinicker

Su Campu wrote: »

Dewpoints were around -1°C so that meant relative humidity of only around 4%, so while it was hot, there are cooler but more humid places that would FEEL hotter (the 84°C heat index in Pakistan above, for instance!!)

I experienced 47c in the Mojave Desert outside Las Vegas,two of us hopped out of the SUV and proceeded to spend over an hour shooting at an outdoor shooting range, despite the high temperatures the very low humidity makes it far more bearable. A hot day in Ireland with high humidity is very uncomfortable and I could live happily in the high forties so long as the humidity stayed very low. Atlanta, GA is supposed to be a killer for humid heat.

eoinor

Stinicker wrote: »

Atlanta, GA is supposed to be a killer for humid heat.

It sure is! During the summer, on clear days we would get thunder storms and heavy rain at around three every afternoon. It would last for 15 or 20 minutes, then the sun would be back out and all the roads would be steaming. The heat was a real killer but every where had air-conditioning. The evenings were perfect except for the mosquitoes!

j1979p

New Jersey can also be a killer in the summer in terms of humidity. I have never experienced heat like it anywhere in Europe and I go on sun holidays every year!

Temperatures reached 39/40 after midday and with a humidity of about 50% which meant temperatures felt like the mid 40's unlike those desert places which get high 40's temperatures but feel like 30's due to low humidity.

Stinicker

j1979p wrote: »

New Jersey can also be a killer in the summer in terms of humidity. I have never experienced heat like it anywhere in Europe and I go on sun holidays every year!

Temperatures reached 39/40 after midday and with a humidity of about 50% which meant temperatures felt like the mid 40's unlike those desert places which get high 40's temperatures but feel like 30's due to low humidity.

A few years ago I was in New York City in August a few years ago and it was around 36c and it was a struggle with humidity.