State Meteorological Service

With air temperatures hovering around 40 degrees Celsius, experts have warned of heightened health risks, particularly during the night.

Recent studies indicate that nighttime temperatures are rising faster than daytime temperatures, elevating the risk of heart disease and stroke. This trend is attributed to global warming.

Heavy rains which started on May 24 morning, following warnings from the State Meteorological Service, have caused significant flooding in the southern province of Hatay.

The rainfall, varying in intensity across districts, was particularly severe in Antakya by evening, creating challenging conditions for drivers.

Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu, who visited Bartın, the northern province which was hit by floods the most among six Black Sea cities, to make inspections, has accepted the flood victim children's insistent demands to fly in a police helicopter.

Türkiye has implemented the "catastrophe early warning system" for the first time amid the fight against the floods that devastated the northern provinces recently, the country's environment, urbanization and climate change minister has said.

A new precipitation wave will impact the northern provinces along the Black Sea shores through the week, said the meteorologists, warning many provinces of thunder-boomers and floodings.

According to the State Meteorological Service, there will be rainfalls in the Marmara region, some Aegean provinces, the provinces near the Georgian border.

Dust clouds dragged from Syria by strong winds have covered the skies over many southeastern and central Anatolia provinces on June 3.

"People residing in these provinces should not go out if not necessary, or wear face masks," prominent meteorologist Orhan Şen said.

Storm heavily battered several provinces in Turkey on Nov. 29 particularly in the Aegean and Marmara regions, killing at least four people in Istanbul and another one in the northern province of Zonguldak, disrupting daily life as well as ferry and sea traffic.

An annual report released by the State Meteorological Service has showed that the volume of the precipitation across the country between Oct. 1, 2020 and Sept. 30, 2021, has been the least of the last two decades.

"The precipitation decreased by 16 percent compared to rainfalls that occurred a year ago and some 19 percent down from the average of several years," the report said.

Turkey witnessed the second hottest July last month, according to data by the State Meteorological Service.

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For years, the average temperature in July across the country has been 24.5 degrees Celsius, whereas this July, temperature climbed up by 1.8 degrees Celsius, reaching 26.3 degrees Celsius.

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Heavy snowfall and cold weather conditions disrupted traffic and paralyzed daily life in Istanbul on Feb. 17.

According to the Metropolitan Disaster Coordination Center (AKOM), temperatures will rise to seasonal norms on Feb. 18.

"Snow thickness in the high and rural areas of the city reached up to 30 centimeters," said AKOM in a statement.