During the months of June and July for this summer, the world witnessed unprecedented heat waves, as June was classified as the third month in history since the start of data registration, with a global thermal deviation approaching +1 degrees Celsius from the usual rates, as well as July, indications until now is among the most hot months.
Europe has been greatly affected by these waves, as estimates published by Reuters showed that the heat wave, especially the last, which lasted from late June to the beginning of July of this year led to the death of about 2,300 people affected by the heat waves in 12 major western cities.
The temperatures in some countries of southern Europe exceeded a 46 -degree barrier in several places such as Andalusia, Spanish, Sicily Italian, and some regions in Portugal and Greece, and in France the city of Marseille, located on the southern coast of France, witnessed a severe heat wave that was among the most severe in its modern history. In late June and early July 2025, Marseille recorded high temperatures, where it approached 40 degrees Celsius.
The yellow continent also recorded the second highest rise in the average annual temperatures in the world, as India and Pakistan have suffered from the continuation of the heat wave that started early since April, as the temperatures exceeded 48 degrees Celsius in several cities in northern India.
While the Arab Gulf states witnessed a severe heat wave, they are among the most severe in the history of the region, where temperatures exceeded 50 degrees Celsius in several regions inside Kuwait, Iraq and eastern Saudi Arabia, with temperatures recorded between 47 and 49 degrees Celsius in most Gulf capitals such as Riyadh, Manama, Abu Dhabi, and Doha.
Iraq has been exposed to a cruel and unprecedented wave, which was classified within the highest in the world for this year, as temperatures in many Iraqi cities exceeded 50 degrees Celsius, especially in Basra, Nasiriyah, Al -Amara, and central Baghdad, and a heat of 53.1 degrees Celsius was recorded in some areas of southern Iraq, in Kuwait, a heat of 53.2 degrees Celsius was recorded in a singer area, to be the highest in this world during this summer.
The eastern region of Saudi Arabia also witnessed an unusual heat wave that lasted for consecutive days without a noticeable decrease, and the severity of the feeling of heat that ranged between 43 degrees Celsius and 46 degrees Celsius in Bahrain this year, most days and touched 47 degrees Celsius, is the great rise in humidity, especially in coastal areas such as Manama and Muharraq.
As for the brown continent, it faced unprecedented free waves in most countries and African regions. During the past month, the countries of the tropical forests and desert plains such as Nigeria, the Congo, South Sudan, and Ethiopia registered, the second war in history, with deviations of up to +2.1 degrees Celsius above the average, and during the current month the temperatures allocated to the continued rise in temperatures in the temperatures indicate in the temperatures North, central and south of the continent due to the continued impact of hot air masses coming from the Sahara, north of the continent.
The American continent – in its north and southern – was also subjected to severe and unprecedented heat waves, which reflected the widening of global warming and its escalating effects across the continents, the United States witnessed an early heat wave during June, where the heat in several states such as Texas, Nevada, Arizona, and New York level 38 degrees Celsius, while in some areas approached 43 degrees Celsius, and recorded Cities such as Phoenix high temperatures at night, causing severe thermal stress, and also affected the wave of the East Coast, and arrived in Washington, Boston and New York, as well as in Canada, record temperatures exceeded 35 degrees Celsius in Montreal and Ottawa at the end of June, which are record degrees for the month of June in these areas at all.
The southern continent was not far from sweeping thermal waves, as Argentina recorded during last February (the summer season in the southern half) heat of 46.5 degrees Celsius in Ribadavia, while Brazil and Paraguay witnessed late free waves during June, affected agriculture and crops, and they were drowned in some areas, and very high temperatures were monitored. 30.8 ° C in Katamarka, northwest of Argentina, which exacerbated the health impact on the population, especially the elderly and workers in open places.
Although the winter in Australia is dissolved from the beginning of June and extends until the end of August, the continent recorded during the month of July free waves that they did not know before, especially in the south and west, with the record of temperatures that exceeded the usual rates by 4 to 6 degrees Celsius, which made the Australian winter completely varying, as accompanied by severe free freedom waves that affected marine creatures.
Then what next?! What after sweeping the heat waves of the blue planet, with its north and south, east and west, with all its continents and surroundings, in all its chapters, its summer and its wonder?!
