Last month was recorded as the third-hottest July since the monitoring of temperatures began. For the first time, Turkey reached 50 degrees Celsius.

This year’s July was recorded as the third hottest worldwide since records began, climate experts said on Thursday.

The average worldwide surface air temperature reached 16.68 degrees Celsius (62.02 degrees Fahrenheit) in July, which is 0.45 degrees C above the 1991-2020 average for the month.

In July this year, temperatures surpassed 50 degrees C in the Gulf, Iraq and, for the first time, Turkey, while torrential rains killed hundreds of people in China and Pakistan.

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    …and that is why the white house needs to destroy weather data gathering satellites.

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      You see, if we stop testing surveying, there won’t be as many cases disasters! /s