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.

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    13 hours ago

    If I could bet $100 million with x99 margin leverage that next year will be hotter, I’d be rich like a oil execitive; but I’m not an oil exec to have $100M in their bank… lol who would benefit more if the world boiled to noninhabitability oh… shit… you don’t say