Iran has introduced a nationwide shutdown on account of "unprecedented heat". 

A two-day nationwide vacation will begin tomorrow with governmental workplaces, banks and colleges all closing.

The well being ministry mentioned hospitals will likely be on excessive alert, because it warned the aged and other people with well being circumstances to remain indoors.

Many cities and cities throughout Iran have sweltered for days in warmth as excessive as 40C (104F), with the mercury rising to 50C (122F) within the southwest metropolis of Ahvaz.

The metropolis additionally registered Iran's hottest-ever temperature in 2022 of 53C (128F).

This 12 months has already seen warmth information damaged throughout the globe, with devastating penalties.

Earth skilled its hottest day in fashionable historical past on 4 July, when the typical world temperature reached 17.18C (62.9F).

The UK recorded its hottest June since information started in 1884.

Back-to-back heatwaves introduced temperatures within the 40s to components of Europe final month, fanning out-of-control wildfires burning throughout components of Greece, Sicily, Portugal and Croatia.

Blazes on Rhodes compelled 19,000 individuals to be evacuated from the Greek resort island, the nation's largest-ever evacuation due to a wildfire.

In the US, Texas and the south has sweltered beneath an intense "heat dome".

Last month, temperatures in Death Valley approached the worldwide report of 56.7C (134F).

Soaring warmth in Mexico has been blamed for the deaths of virtually 112 individuals since March, whereas virtually 170 individuals have been killed in India.

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China has additionally recorded the best variety of days the place the temperature exceeded 35C (95F) over a six-month interval since information started. North Africa has additionally seen temperatures above 50C (95F).

Even Antarctica, at the moment in its winter, registered anomalously excessive temperatures. Ukraine's Vernadsky Research Base within the white continent's Argentine Islands not too long ago broke its July temperature report with a 8.7C (47.6F) studying.

A examine from the World Weather Attribution (WWA) discovered this 12 months's excessive temperatures are not uncommon.

It mentioned heatwaves in Europe and North America would have been nearly unattainable with out local weather change.

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