Iraqis face record-breaking heat, electricity cuts
Protests against the government and frequent power outages are continuing amid Iraq's highest temperatures on record.
Iraqis are contending with record-breaking temperatures and a poorly functioning electricity system as a heat wave sweeps across the country.
“I felt a burn on the street when I walked home,” Erbil resident Ali Abdulwahid told Al-Monitor.
On Tuesday, the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, recorded an all-time high temperature of 125 degrees Fahrenheit (51.7 Celsius), according to the weather forecasting service AccuWeather.
Though no records were broken Thursday, there was not much relief from the scorching temperatures. The high in Baghdad was 120 degrees Fahrenheit (48.9 Celsius) Thursday. The high in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region farther north, was also 120. The high in the southern city of Basra was 125, according to Accuweather.
