Starting from Wednesday, Türkiye is about to expertise the affect of “eyyam-ı-bahur,” often known as the desert warmth, inferno warmth or African warmth, which refers back to the hottest days of summer time.
Eyyam-ı-bahur (an Ottoman Turkish phrase given to the primary week of August for the “very hot days”) brings the temperatures nearly to a boiling level, with consultants warning the general public to not exit typically throughout the day.
Professor Şermin Tağıl, a geography skilled from Bakırçay University within the western province of Izmir, on Tuesday, warned that the arrival of the most well liked and most suffocating days of the summer time season would additionally enhance the danger of forest fires.
Under regular circumstances, this era, generally often known as canine days, represents the most well liked and most insufferable summer time days climatologically, Tağıl defined.
“However, this summer, due to the influence of the high pressure developed in the Mediterranean, heat waves have been more frequent, longer-lasting and more intense throughout July, making it hot and oppressive,” she mentioned.
Noting that the coastal areas of the nation shall be extra affected, Tağıl mentioned humidity ranges will rise and perceived temperatures will enhance.
The professor additionally defined that as a result of extreme warming of the Northern Hemisphere in recent times, adjustments in jet streams have been noticed.
“Unfortunately, due to the excessive warming of the North Pole on the one hand and changes in ocean temperatures along with ocean-atmosphere oscillations on the other hand, the jet stream, which transports hot air northward and cold air southward, has weakened and become relatively more southward and wavy,” she famous
This has elevated the danger of extended warmth waves and drought in some areas and intense climate occasions associated to heavy rainfall in different areas.
She additionally predicted that because of southerly scorching air, the extended impact of warmth waves and oppressive climate patterns are set to final till Aug. 7-8.
“But from Aug. 9-10, we expect a cooling effect from the north, especially affecting northwestern Anatolia and the Black Sea Region, which will lead to a decrease in temperatures by 3-5 degrees Celsius (37.4-41 degrees Fahrenheit).”
During this era, Tağıl emphasised that scorching climate, along with humidity, will have an effect on susceptible teams extra, and due to this fact, pregnant ladies and people with power diseases ought to keep away from going exterior between 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Stating that the climate in query may also have an effect on different residing issues, Tağıl mentioned: “The vegetation in our country has dried up too much with the effect of the hot air current in the past few days, which has increased the flammability even more. Nowadays, we are also under the influence of the wind system in the northern sector. When the wind and heat come together, it causes fires that are difficult to prevent. It is necessary to take measures for this.”
Professor Murat Türkeş of Boğaziçi University’s Center for Climate Change and Policy Studies additionally said that Türkiye is affected by consecutive very popular and typically extraordinarily scorching climate circumstances throughout the “eyyam-ı-bahur,” introduced by very popular tropical air plenty from Arabia, Iran and the Middle East.
Türkeş defined that in this era, as a result of excessive temperatures, evaporation shall be excessive. As a consequence, the humidity will rise in coastal areas close to the ocean or giant lakes, which may have an effect on individuals and plenty of different residing beings.
“In a way, it is a local designation, and in a way, it carries the characteristics of a folk calendar related to weather and climate events. During the ‘eyyam-ı-bahur,’ generally, there is a high probability of experiencing high and extremely high temperatures,” he mentioned.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
