Weather and Natural Disasters

Yesterday's 154 degrees in Iran? Today it's 165

Attention people on the U.S. East Coast "suffering" through the recent heat wave: you've got nothing on the poor residents of Bandar Mahshahr, Iran.

The coastal town that hit a heat index of 154 degrees Fahrenheit on Thursday topped that with a reading just over 165 degrees on Friday, according to University of Miami researcher Brian McNoldy.

McNoldy tweet

As the Washington Post reported, the reading in Bandar Mahshahr might be the second-highest ever recorded.

Darkness brought little relief to the city of more than 100,000 people, either—at 8:30 p.m. local time the "feels like" temperature was still 135 degrees, according to Weather Channel data.