Notes

Record heat in Türkiye. Last Friday, just before noon, local time, Silopi in southeast Türkiye hit a blazing 50.5 degrees Celsius (122.9 Fahrenheit ), which is a new all-time maximum temperature record for the country. The last one was set in August 2023, at 49.5 Celsius (121.1 Fahrenheit) in Türkiye’s northwest—the real surprise here being that the new record beat the old one by more than a whole degree. Usually, new records are only by fractions of a degree. Meanwhile, 132 weather stations across Türkiye also reported record-breaking high temperatures the same day.

—Brendan Hasenstab