The temperature reached a record 62 degrees Celsius (143.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in Kuwait in July 2017, causing several trees to explode.
In July 2017, social media users shared videos and photographs of burning trees and the melting of streetlights, the alleged effects of a record heat wave in Kuwait in which temperatures rose to 62 degrees Celsius (143.6 degrees Fahrenheit).
First, a day at 62 degrees Celsius was never recorded. The highest temperature recorded, according to the World Meteorological Organization, 56.7 degrees Celsius (134 degrees Fahrenheit) on July 10, 1913 in Furnace Creek, California. Highest temperature in Kuwait, 54 degrees Celsius, recorded in Mitrabah in July 2016. Although photographs of burning trees are likely to be real, the claim that these fires were caused by temperatures of 62 degrees Celsius is unfounded.
The climate in Kuwait hovered around 50 degrees Celsius in July 2017:
The web site Frontnews.eu shared one of the most popular videos of this claim, showing a tree burning on the side of the road along with the report that the temperature had reached 62°C in Kuwait:
In Kuwait, air temperature in some places reached 62 degrees Celsius in an open space where there is no shade.
Social media users make percentages of videos of burning trees, shrubs, and also notice that due to heat, gas in car tanks has exploded.
This video was filmed in Medina, Saudi Arabia, and captured a palm tree that was struck by lightning, as reported through the online page alweeam.com (translated via Google Translate and edited for clarity):
Lightning struck a palm tree on the well-known Sultana Street in Medina. After heavy rains today in the domain and in some of its provinces, the chimney burst all over the palm before civil defense firefighters began their work.
A video clip was documented through a citizen. The combustion procedure gradually began with the palm tree on fire, and temporarily extended the surrounding area, endangering firefighters before firefighters put out the chimney in the palm and surrounding trees.
ضربت صاعقة رعدية الليلة نخلة واقعة في شارع سلطانة الشهير في المدينة المنورة وذلك إثر الأمطار الغزيرة التي شهدتها المنطقة اليوم وبعض المحافظات التابعة لها ، اندلعت النيران بكامل النخلة قبل مباشرة فرقة الإطفاء التابعة للدفاع المدني للمهام المناطة بها.
A video of a moment claimed that it showed a burning plant due to Kuwait’s high temperatures:
Although this video was filmed in Kuwait, we did not discover evidence that recommends that the plant stick to the chimney only because of the high air temperatures. Local reports (translated through Google Translated and modified for clarity) indicated that the cause of the chimney is unknown:
Firefighters extinguished a chimney place in several trees on the first ring road near the Park of martyrs. In detail, a report sent to the operating room indicating that a chimney place had occurred on the first device. The Shuwaikh industrial fire station called and the chimney site was extinguished. Firefighters are investigating lately.
أخمدت فرق الإطفاء حريقا اندلع في عدد من الأشجار على طريق الدائري الأول قرب حديقة الشهيد. وفي التفاصيل أن بلاغا ورد الى غرفة العمليات يفيد بنشوب حريق أشجار على طريق الدائري الأول ، توجه علدوف جلر. يعكف رجال الإطفاء حاليا على تحديد أسباب الحريق.
A photograph of a melting soft traffic also gave the impression next to the maximum temperature claim:
Although this symbol was taken in Kuwait, it dates from 2013 and showed a street lamp that would have melted due to the chimney of a car nearby.
A last symbol published as “proof” that temperatures had reached 62 degrees Celsius in Kuwait:
According to the Kuwait Times, however, this symbol manipulated. Meteorologist Adel Al-Saadoun, director of the Fintas Meteorological Observatory, explained that the temperature had never reached 62 degrees Celsius in Kuwait and that such reports were only “fake news”:
“Don’t falsify the news,” warned meteorologist Adel Al-Saadoun, head of the Fintas Meteorological Observatory, as social media reports that temperatures in Kuwait were reaching 62 degrees debuted. “This is fake news, it’s not true,” Saadoun told the Kuwait Times. “Kuwait recorded temperatures of up to 52 degrees Celsius. Never in history did the temperature in Kuwait reach 62 degrees. As we speak, the temperature is 49 degrees Celsius (at 2 pm yesterday), however, other people have posted photographs of 54, 56 degrees: the internal temperature of the car is higher, but not according to our climate tracking system ».
Saadoun said mercury will continue to rise in the coming days until the end of July, however, until early August, the heat will begin to decline. “It’s the same old thing in Kuwait. This era is called the summer solstice. This is the moment when the sun is right next to us up there, and we look forward this time in July,” he said.
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