Temperature

A crisis in relations between Montenegro's prime minister and some of the lawmakers he depends on has reached boiling point.

Posts shared thousands of times on Facebook since the start of pandemic claim that using an infrared thermometer to take your temperature risks damaging the pineal gland, located in the brain. This is false, assert several neuroscience researchers who ensure that this type of thermometer does not emit infrared radiation when used.

Ljubljana – Slovenia woke up to an unseasonably cold morning on Wednesday with temperatures dipping into the 20s below zero in the south of the country in what is the coldest April morning on record.

Turkey experienced this year the third warmest winter in the last 50 years after 1971 and 2010, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported on March 25.

Last month was the hottest May on record worldwide, a European climate agency has reported, with temperatures in Siberia rising 10 degrees Celsius (18 degrees Fahrenheit) above their normal levels.

Turkey is experiencing the warmest May due to hot weather front from North Africa, causing rising temperatures across the country, according to state meteorology officials.
After the weekend during which the temperatures set all-time record highs for May in Antalya, Muğla, Burdur and Isparta, temperatures hit 40 degrees Celsius on May 18 in most cities.

A temperature record was registered in Varna - 29 degrees were measured at 12 o'clock. This was announced by NIMH in the sea capital, quoted by BNR.

The previous temperature record was in 1938, when 27.6 degrees were measured on the same date. 

A heatwave is expected to hit Turkey starting Friday until next Tuesday, the general directorate of meteorological service has warned. 

Prime Minister Ludovic Orban stated on Friday that among the relaxation measures that are to be taken after the end of the state of emergency there might be the possibility of workplace or school triage through the measuring of temperature with the aid of electronic thermometers.

While tens of thousands of people flocked to the shopping avenues and seashores to enjoy the December sun in Istanbul, where the thermometer touched 20 degrees Celsius on Dec. 14, meteorologists have brought explanations to the non-arrival of the winter.