Hottest EVER temperatures in Georgia and Armenia

When did you last hear news from Tblisi or Yerevan. Anecdote tells me that temperatures reached 45 degrees Celsius, not the official 42.7°C

JESC host city Tbilisi records hottest EVER temperature amidst global heatwave

Tbilisi recorded 40.5°C on Wednesday, an all-time record. How hot is it where you live?

Ekstra,

8 July, 2018

Let’s take a step away from the Eurovision world and back into the real world and discuss the heatwave that is gripping Europe and beyond this summer. It has now been confirmed that, on Wednesday, the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi recorded its hottest temperature EVER as the city reached 40.5°C. It’s certainly a change from our time there last November for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest when the temperature dipped below zero!

Tbilisi needs a Waterfall

As revealed by Etienne Kapikian of Météo-France, the 2017 Junior Eurovision host city broke its all-time temperature record on July 4th by 0.1°C. The previous record had been achieved on August 1st, 2000 on which Tbilisi recorded a temperature of 40.4°C. This is nine degrees Celsius higher than Tbilisi’s July average high of 31.2°C.

Georgia’s neighbouring capital city of Yerevan in Armenia and Baku in Azerbaijan are recording even higher temperatures than Tbilisi, although not quite breaking records. Baku recorded 42.7°C last Sunday (July 1st) and a day later, Yerevan recorded 42°C.

From the far east of Europe to the far west…

It’s not just the far east of the Eurovision world which is burning up. Over in the far west of Europe, the United Kingdom is also feeling the heat… and not just in the World Cup. The Northern Irish capital city of Belfast recorded its all-time record high temperature of 29.5°C on June 28th. Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city, also recorded its hottest day ever a day later as the mercury rose to 31.9°C.

As stated by the Washington Post, “all-time heat records have been set all over the world in the past week”. Climate change is an important issue that the globe must tackle, otherwise, record-breaking heatwaves will become the norm. We hope everyone stays safe in these record-breaking temperatures!