Water from Turkey can stop this here...

[Groucho]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/598179 ... -EU-report

[Lottidotti]

Slight exaggeration on temperature @63 degrees.Still I suppose it sells papers.I think Death Valley in the U.S. holds the record at somewhere around 57 degrees.

[Bertie]

We were told that it was 57C in Lefkosa last week....the highest recorded temperature for many years!!!!!!!

[tomsteel]

For interest only - On 13 September 1922, a temperature of 58 °C (136.4 °F) was purportedly recorded at El Azizia (approximately 40 kilometers south-southwest of Tripoli) in what is now modern-day Libya…. [T]he WMO World Archive of Weather and Climate Extremes has rejected this temperature extreme of 58 °C as the highest temperature officially recorded on the planet. The WMO assessment is that the highest recorded surface temperature of 56.7 °C (134 °F) was measured on 10 July 1913 at 46 Greenland Ranch (Death Valley) CA USA.

[waddo]

Another "Express" exclusive on a slow news day - Britons will holiday wherever there is sun and it is cheap, its the nature of the beast and will not change. I never seem to hear moans about high temps here from Tourists, it is only the people who live here that notice when one summer is hotter than another, I know for sure that when we used to "Holiday" here if it was really hot we did not care because there was that miracle of the "SUN" and "CLEAR BLUE SKY" that we rarely saw in the UK.

[Groucho]

Ah but will they go to Spain and Portugal if they know the swimming pools will be empty?

[waddo]

They used to go there even when the hotels were still not finished! Nothing stops people looking for a "Bargain", just look how many homes were sold here post 2004.

[johnny1]

bertie are you sure 57 c?

[surfmeetseast]

The 57c recorded in Lefkosia was a fault with the thermometer apparently, the sun was shining directly onto it and it was not a true indication of the general temperature

[johnny1]

47 c i can believe
so wat was the temp of the hottest day this summer?

[Owl Lady]

Who really cares it was HOT and I love it. Spent a longest coldest, wettest Winter I can remember in the 10 years I have lived here. Moaning about the weather and now we have actually got a Summer, you are complaining,never satisfied!!Tin hat at the ready!!

[johnny1]

whose complaining?and who cares if you love it or not...i was asking what the real temp was not some reply from you !

[allytt]

whose complaining?and who cares if you love it or not...i was asking what the real temp was not some reply from you !

You can see the official data here:

http://www.kktcmeteor.org/sondurumlar/e ... 0817&ind=0

The 50's and 60's you hear quoted are in direct sun, so very misleading. we've had some low 40's, but that's about it. Nothing that extreme.