According to the Meteorological Organization of Iran, temperatures soared to 126 F in the city of Abadan reported. The blistering temperature broke all records in the city and Khuzestan Province for June. The climate in Khuzestan is comparable to the environment of Baghdad.
The Dez River that flows through the province has all but dried up. Hydroelectric power has dramatically reduced in Adaban and Teheran, and underground aquifers have been exploited.
As the climate worsens, Iran and the middle east will empty. We certainly will not welcome Iranians neither will the Sunni nations in the region. I don’t even want to think about what that would look like.
Factoring in the humidity in the province, it is practically impossible to determine how hot it actually feels as the weather cannot fit on the heat index (HI) -- that combines air temperature and relative humidity.
The heat wave in Khuzestan follows reports about a new wave of drought in the province.
The flow in downstream areas of the Dez River, which is a 400-kilometer-long tributary of the Karun River, has decreases drastically, alarming environmental activists and villagers.
In 2021, large-scale water protests took place in two important provinces, Khuzestan and Esfahan, with several people killed and hundreds injured by security forces.
Iran has been suffering from drought for at least a decade and this year officials are warning of a further decrease in precipitation.
Authorities said earlier in the month that water inflow into Tehran’s dams decreased by about 21 percent since March compared with last year.