Iran is cooking and it is not a euphemism. The country, in the middle of a heat wave, is reaching temperatures that go beyond what a human being can bear. This past Sunday, the thermometers registered up to 67 degrees in the International Airport of the Persian Gulf of Iran, a heat incompatible with human life.

In this context and according to US Stormwatch meteorologist Colin McCarthy, the Iranian airport reported a heat index of 66.7 degrees Celsius, physically intolerable conditions for humans and animals, and represents a high risk of death from heat stroke. This was caused by an extraordinary combination of extremely high temperatures and abundant atmospheric moisture from the warm waters of the Persian Gulf, generating unprecedented heat.

“Those are intolerable conditions for human and animal life,” McCarthy said in networks. Although the 66.7 degrees of Iran last Sunday are far from the 81 that were registered in the Persian Gulf, on July 8, 2003, in Saudi Arabia.

Experts have made it clear that the heat is not going to end. Climate change, El Niño and the 'Charon' wave seem to have joined forces to push some countries of the world to the extreme. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) already sounded the alarm at the beginning of this month of July, “characteristic El Niño conditions prevail, which can lead to an increase in world temperatures and the generation of harmful weather and climate patterns”. From the entity belonging to the UN they were not wrong: the first week of July was the hottest on record on Earth. For now.