Summer 2025 already a clock of climate extremity

Record heat, massive fire, deadly floods … barely began on August, but the summer of 2025 is already marked due to a catastrophic and deadly weather clash in the northern hemisphere.

“Extreme temperatures and rainfall have become more severe and more frequently globally,” says Sonia Seniorin, a professor of IPCC, ETH Zuric and member of the UN Climate Science Advisory Panel.

“We are in the midst of climate change,” Fred Heaterman told AFP, a scientist at the Ptsdam Institute for Cabinet Research (PIK).

He said, “The risk of extreme events has increased significantly,” he said, 2024 was the first year, with the average temperature above 1.6 degrees Celsius above the benchmark.

This fraud makes a lot of differences.

High temperature vapor increases, so that the environment is more water storage. As a result, the risk of heavy rainfall and flooding increases.

Heaterman added, “Every increase in temperature rise increases the risk of even stronger and stronger.”

Gulf, 50 c in Turkey

Already in May, the temperature in the United Arab Emirates exceeded 50C. On August 1, the Thermometer hit 51.8C, under only a timely record of 52C.

The entire Gulf region is falling: Saudi capital Riyadh recorded a temperature of 44 ° C, while Kuwait often kills 50C.

As Iraq did, where air conditioning has become a threat to chronic electricity deductions, and water reserves are at the bottom of their years.

Turkey for the first time exceeded 50C: Slopy, located on the border with Iraq and Syria, reached 50.5C on July 26.

This summer has tested thousands of fires in the midst of a severe drought.

In the meantime, in Asia, Japan broke its temperature record on Tuesday with 41.8C in the city of Isaaci, northwest of Tokyo. The island’s famous cherry trees, which contain the island, are opening more than the heat.

Heavy rain in Hong Kong

On Tuesday, Hong Kong saw the highest rainfall for August to keep a record of more than 140 years in a single day: 35.5 cm (14 inches) a day.

On the mainland China, a week ago, at least 44 people were killed in severe weather and nine missing in rural districts north of Beijing.

Pakistan Flood, Finland Heat

266 people, half of them children, have already lost their lives in Pakistan due to heavy rains across the country.

The 2025 Monsoon, which began soon, was declared “extraordinary” by the authorities. In July, 73 % more rainfall was recorded in July than 2024 in Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province.

People come to Scandinavia to achieve cold springs, but since July Norway, Sweden and Finland have experienced the Mediterranean temperatures.

On August 3, at the end of the 22 -day period, Finland was marked with temperatures above 30 ° C: a record.

In the north of the Arctic Circle, Finnish city of Rovani, the temperature reached 30C, which is higher than in South Europe at the same time.

Mega Fire in Canada

According to Canada records, one of the worst fires in the forest is facing, which has risen from drought and normal temperature.

From Scotland to Arizona and Greece, other parts of the world are also burning.

According to the European Union’s Coopernax weather and the Observatory, the northern hemisphere has recorded the highest record for smoke and greenhouse gas emissions since the beginning of summer.

25 2025 AFP