A video recently spread via Tek Tok, in black and white, and it talks about the maximum temperature and humidity witnessed by the Kingdom of Bahrain, and the commentator in the video says that the summer of 1962 AD was the warmest and more humid than the most summer in Bahrain, and added that the daily heat and humidity rate in July and August is higher than any rate during the past seventeen of that time where the recorded temperature had reached
113 ° F (45 ° C), and it was not equivalent to similar humidity until 1957 AD.
After communicating with the Meteorological Department of the Ministry of Communications and Communications, a administration that has an integrated meteorological record from 1901 AD to date, to verify this information, it was found that it was not accurate; It is true that the most daily temperature was recorded at the time
(1962 AD) was in July, and it was 43.9 ° C. The maximum daily relative humidity was 95%, while in August the maximum daily registered temperature was 42.3 ° C and the maximum daily relative humidity was 92%. By comparing this with what was recorded in the summer of 2025 AD, it was the maximum daily registered temperature was in June (45.4 ° C), and the maximum daily relative humidity recorded in it was 75%, while in July the maximum daily heat was 44 ° C and maximum relativity is 91%, but in August, until the date of writing the article, the maximum temperature was 43.1 ° C and maximum daily relative humidity are 89%.
And since the apparent heat depends on three factors: the temperature, the relative moisture and the speed of the wind, if the temperature increases and the humidity increases and the winds are lacking, the touched heat will become more than registered about about it.
15 ° C, and if we go back to 1962 AD, the maximum apparent heat in July is ° 115 AD, and in August 107 ° C!
Meteorological results indicate that the highest temperature was registered in the history of Bahrain was on July 13, 2010 (47.4 ° C), followed on June 21, 2022 AD
(46.6 ° C) Then on August 9, 1993 (45.7 ° C).
Why is the weather suffocating in Bahrain in August and September?
The atmosphere in Bahrain sometimes looks suffocating in the summer because the high heat is accompanied by high humidity affects the body in ways that make the feeling of heat much larger than the actual, and the scientific reason lies in the following:
1- The role of sweat in cooling the body: The human body cools itself by evaporation of sweat from the skin, when low humidity (such as dry deserts), sweat evaporates quickly, the body cools efficiently even if the heat is high, but at high humidity, the air is almost saturated with water vapor, so the sweat evaporates slowly or does not evaporate, so the sweat accumulates and feels more heat.
2- Thermal sensation, apparent heat, or thermal indicator: Moisture makes the body feel more heat than the actual scale, for example if the heat is 38 ° C, and the relative humidity is 70%, then the thermal feeling can reach 55 ° C and more.
3- The effect of the night: In the dry areas, the heat falls a lot at night because drought allows fast cooling, and in Bahrain, moisture holds the heat at night, so the atmosphere remains warm and moist even after sunset, and unfortunately this happens severely these days, and it increases after Suhail rises on August 24, and moisture is not less in the middle of early October.
4- Body stress: The high temperature and humidity together put an additional burden on the heart and the respiratory system, so the person feels tired faster. Unfortunately, in Bahrain, thick water vapor in the atmosphere is an obstacle to cooling the natural body, which makes the feeling of heat severe and suffocating compared to dry areas, even if the temperatures are close.
* Professor of Applied Physics
At the Arab Gulf University
