Besides each having religiously-led dictatorial regimes hellbent on demonizing people who don’t strictly conform to their specific interpretation of their scriptures, Iran and Florida have other things in common, like hellish temperatures. With coastal waters hovering close to the 100ºF mark as happened at its North American counterpart, Iran is seeing the heat index in some areas reach 158ºF, nearing the calculated maximum for human tolerance.
According to the Washington Post, the spike in Iran’s coastal areas is largely due to sharp increases in temperatures in the Persian Gulf, which have been stuck in the 90ºF range for weeks, an unusually long time for such a streak. Surface water temperatures, measured via satellites, reached 97.6ºF, the highest seen in the 20-year record.