Saudi temperatures could hit 70° Celcius this summer

I am surprised that the official temp is always less than the temp showing on the signs around Riyadh....

Something to do with shade???

Man! that's going to melt the tar on roads, light up many trees, and obviously make us sick...

Keep plenty of water on hand and stay cool

Oh my goodness that's ridiculous!!
I'm already drinking 3 litres of water a day..
With these extremes of temperatures its certainly going to be an interesting summer.

thats just plain madness!! madness?....madnes???? THIS IS SAUDI!!!!!

Well dont think the a/c will work at that temp.. No compressor can take those odds.
but if that is true.. it willl be a very interesting summer indeed!

the official temp is alwasy a bit lesser because if it goes above 50, they would have to call it off for everybody. and well the government wouldnt want to stop work.

It was suppose, bc no rain this year in Jeddah, Temperature and heat rising

That is extreme. What is normal range of summer tempratrure in Riyadh.

I can see this being a "Hot" topic

Have temperatures ever reached 70° Celsius before in the Gulf?

maybe in riyadh. but here in jizan the weather is cool in the nights and just a little bit hot in the day.

One of the things i learned in KSA is never trust weather forecast.....
As per Wikipedia, highest temperature ever recorded is 57.8 Degree Celcius in Libya.
http / en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/List_of_weather_records

Its just a rumor :p

Ya.. 70 Celsius would be just too exagerate.. But then again,I don't expect it to stop at just 50 Celsius, maybe up to 55 Celsius in couple of those extreme hot days..

SaudiUK wrote:

I am surprised that the official temp is always less than the temp showing on the signs around Riyadh....

Something to do with shade???

No something to do with labour laws.

jazzy851 wrote:

I can see this being a "Hot" topic

Have temperatures ever reached 70° Celsius before in the Gulf?

Nowhere on earth has ever exceeded 60c since records began.

Are you sure? I thought the Lut desert was measured at like 70C or something? I think its time for google ... brb

http://news.discovery.com/earth/hottest … 20416.htmlhttp://earthsky.org/earth/where-are-the … s-on-earth

Apparently Australia and China are also way up there - I love google it teaches me so much more than all those wasted years at school

More reasons to come visit Jeddah. 

Patsystone wrote:

Oh my goodness that's ridiculous!!
I'm already drinking 3 litres of water a day..
With these extremes of temperatures its certainly going to be an interesting summer.

I hope summer will not be that much hot...
Regards!

It's extremely hard to believe that the temperature would reach 70 celcius in our lifetime, or even many lifetimes from now. Scientists do know, that eventually, our sun will die, like any star eventually will, and when it does, it will expand to many times it's normal size and envelope the earth in its fire, before fizzling out. At that time, yes, it's going to get very hot here. But the good news is, it's 100's of thousands of years away, and won't be our problem.  Enjoy the sun!

&0 might be unrealistically high true.. but then I am sure that it will cross the 55 C mark at the rate that it is going right now. It is going to be a hot Ramadhan alright!

70 Degrees not possible SCADOUCHE!

http://arabnews.com/70-degrees-c-not-possible

altough im skeptical on how they keep on saying max to be 49degrees since by saudi law, if the temperature exceeds 50 they have to declare a national holiday. thats why none of the temp indicators outside would ever show it to be above 49.

at least thats what i heard.

borntobemild wrote:

...if the temperature exceeds 50 they have to declare a national holiday. thats why none of the temp indicators outside would ever show it to be above 49.

at least thats what i heard.

That's what I heard, too.  But it's not unheard of at home--I live in a resort area where rain is NEVER predicted

Case closed with the following news.

70 degrees C 'not possible'
http://www. arabnews.com/70-degrees-c-not-possible

Reports of 70°C this summer are baseless — PME
http://www. saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20120626128159

Ehtesham wrote:

Case closed with the following news.

70 degrees C 'not possible'
http://www. arabnews.com/70-degrees-c-not-possible

Reports of 70°C this summer are baseless — PME
http://www. saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20120626128159

Darn.. I was looking forward to frying an egg on the sidewalk.. and then uploading a vid to Youtube.  I would have been an international celebrity!!  But now? 

Alliecat wrote:

Ehtesham wrote:

Darn.. I was looking forward to frying an egg on the sidewalk.. and then uploading a vid to Youtube.  I would have been an international celebrity!!  But now? 

Don't worry the sidewalk would reach that temperature anyhow. So you can go ahead and fry an egg and upload the same on youtube and become an international celebrity !!

BTW, I thought you are already an International Celebrity !!

saimans wrote:

BTW, I thought you are already an International Celebrity !!

Thank you for noticing

LOL

Alliecat wrote:

Ehtesham wrote:

Case closed with the following news.

70 degrees C 'not possible'
http://www. arabnews.com/70-degrees-c-not-possible

Reports of 70°C this summer are baseless — PME
http://www. saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20120626128159

Darn.. I was looking forward to frying an egg on the sidewalk.. and then uploading a vid to Youtube.  I would have been an international celebrity!!  But now? 

eggs/anything on earth cant be fried at 70 degrees atleast

DrHassanMalik wrote:

Alliecat wrote:

Ehtesham wrote:

Case closed with the following news.

70 degrees C 'not possible'
http://www. arabnews.com/70-degrees-c-not-possible

Reports of 70°C this summer are baseless — PME
http://www. saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20120626128159

Darn.. I was looking forward to frying an egg on the sidewalk.. and then uploading a vid to Youtube.  I would have been an international celebrity!!  But now? 

eggs/anything on earth cant be fried at 70 degrees atleast

I know.. but the point Ehtesham was making is that it won't get that hot.

Alliecat wrote:

DrHassanMalik wrote:

Alliecat wrote:

Darn.. I was looking forward to frying an egg on the sidewalk.. and then uploading a vid to Youtube.  I would have been an international celebrity!!  But now? 

eggs/anything on earth cant be fried at 70 degrees atleast

I know.. but the point Ehtesham was making is that it won't get that hot.

sarcasm is the word..

DrHassanMalik wrote:

Alliecat wrote:

DrHassanMalik wrote:

eggs/anything on earth cant be fried at 70 degrees atleast

I know.. but the point Ehtesham was making is that it won't get that hot.

sarcasm is the word..

I totally don't get it.  What's sarcastic about your statement "eggs/anything on earth cant be fried at 70 degrees atleast" ?

Alliecat wrote:

DrHassanMalik wrote:

Alliecat wrote:

I know.. but the point Ehtesham was making is that it won't get that hot.

sarcasm is the word..

I totally don't get it.  What's sarcastic about your statement "eggs/anything on earth cant be fried at 70 degrees atleast" ?

keep trying

DrHassanMalik wrote:

Alliecat wrote:

DrHassanMalik wrote:

sarcasm is the word..

I totally don't get it.  What's sarcastic about your statement "eggs/anything on earth cant be fried at 70 degrees atleast" ?

keep trying

When something makes no sense, it makes no sense.  Probably language issues.  I think I'll just move on to something more interesting

Alliecat wrote:

DrHassanMalik wrote:

Alliecat wrote:

I totally don't get it.  What's sarcastic about your statement "eggs/anything on earth cant be fried at 70 degrees atleast" ?

keep trying

When something makes no sense, it makes no sense.  Probably language issues.  I think I'll just move on to something more interesting

ohh that's so refreshing to know that you also "move on" occasionally..

DrHassanMalik wrote:

Alliecat wrote:

DrHassanMalik wrote:

keep trying

When something makes no sense, it makes no sense.  Probably language issues.  I think I'll just move on to something more interesting

ohh that's so refreshing to know that you also "move on" occasionally..

Obviously more than can be said for you ...

Alliecat wrote:

DrHassanMalik wrote:

Alliecat wrote:

When something makes no sense, it makes no sense.  Probably language issues.  I think I'll just move on to something more interesting

ohh that's so refreshing to know that you also "move on" occasionally..

Obviously more than can be said for you ...

doesn't mater as far as its what "you" think only..

DrHassanMalik wrote:

Alliecat wrote:

DrHassanMalik wrote:

ohh that's so refreshing to know that you also "move on" occasionally..

Obviously more than can be said for you ...

doesn't mater as far as its what "you" think only..

Hi guyz! i dont feel that the comments made by Alli Kitty was sarcastic....just chill

still doesn't make any sense! LOL
its not a language barrier, its the language wailing wall! LOL

Here's is an update. From my car thermometer:

@ TLL - It was 52 degrees C, the highest recorded for the day !!