Iraqis get creative to survive 50°C weather amid severe heatwave at the start of summer
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Temperatures in some parts of Iraq have soared to 50°C (122°F) in the first week of June 2022. People have resorted to various means of cooling off under the extreme temperatures, including by taking a dip in Baghdad’s Tigris River or by setting up misting fans on streets and buying bottled water in bulk. Parts of Iraq are already suffering from drought, especially in the country’s marshes. The NGO Nature Iraq said the water levels in the marshes in 2022 have been lower compared to the same time last year. Water buffalo herders say they are struggling to keep their livestock alive.
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Very hot and excruciating summer.
SCMP be like: *plays upbeat guitar melody"
right? I was like, SCMP????
Exactly what I was thinking. 😬
True, but it fits the video if it means that normal life is returning after decades of conflict. They start to have news about weather instead of war
I don't understand. Why is the music so playful and upbeat despite the harrowing hardship the Iraqi people are enduring right about now?
Idk the editor doesn't have feelings
Right?
What are you talking about? We're living a normal happy life just like you westerners are, Iraq is not the same just like 2006
imagine thinking everyday is Doomsday because lying media companies have an agenda to sell.
@@OFFICERchoclet we’re talking about the horrible weather
The other day, the recorded temperature in Kuwait was 52°C.
I recently read a report that Kuwait is the most vulnerable country to climate change, with increase in temperature to be the highest in the next 3 years. Birds falling from the sky and Camels collapsing and dying have been recently quite a common sight in the country.
Kind of karma hitting home, they profit off fossil fuels and are the first to feel the consequences. Not much they can do now tbh.
@@LoosSerine such a dumb comment
@spaks some Iraqi somewhere said sure cmon and take it all, but only for a fee. So your pont?
@spaks don't think this was about "most". In proportion to size, Kuwait certainly makes its weight in oil. Plus it's wealth as with most in the region is almost entirely off oil.
@spaks Aircon and other amenities will only amplify the problem. Aircon effectively sends hot air out, so warms up urban areas more.
i love the fancy music over the guy that just explained that they will losee everything if the water is gone
hahahahaa
"Our farmland animals are dying of dehydration"
SCMP: **Funky Guitar Intensifies**
I'm currently crying over 32° but suddenly I feel cool now 😫
*laughs in 40-45°c average temp for tbe whole month*
In my country it reached 45°C rn and then at night it goes back down to 30°C, I miss the cold weather 😭
I literally walk outside sometimes in like 40 degrees weather, and the people in Iraq are pretty resilient to the heat
@@nvrmxithx Cold is worse.
@@mersenne2486 you can protect yourself against cold but not against heat. Heat is also more dangerous.
So glad to see that life in Iraq is slowly returning
@Huang Jianhao From the USA it returns from China Tibet is still not free
@Littlefinger when will we give back San Diego, New Mexico, Texas, California to Mexico??
@@irritatedanglosaxon1705 Wanna organize a referendum in both?
@@irritatedanglosaxon1705
All conquered cope
@Luis don’t think it’s illegal to use UA-cam in China. All Americans and Europeans in China do it too, via VPN or something.
UA-cam and Google refuse to operate in China under local laws. That’s certain.
Heatwave is hitting a lot of places it's gonna be a hateful summer
why is the soundtrack so upbeat? lol. people are drying up and it's giving party on the beach vibe
Heatwave is truly dangerous.
.
It's like when you've been blown of the water vapor of the hot water, making you dizzy.
I hate hot weather living in 40C in asia
The news 🔥☀️💀☀️💀🔥
The music 🌞🏖🌞🏖🌞
editor: "sorry I forgor 💀"
50 freaking degrees & I complain about 33 degrees here
Hahahaa Tara kape
23 ONLY??!!! For us “cool” is like 40~43 degrees
Wow
Bery dangerous 😱😱
35°c humidity dito 🤦♂️
@@twqtt same
50°?
I couldn't even handle 38°
Where do you live? Palembang?
Music doesn’t match 😂
It's 37°C here and I'm dying. Cannot imagine surviving any more heat than that. 🥵
Lol
Where is "here" ?
South East Asia I think.
@@ImfuraKenny India
50°C??? Whaaattt??? 33°C is already hot for me.
Wow
Bery dangerous 😱😱
Humidity also plays effect.
50 is really really hot....
50 degrees Celsius is absolutely mind boggling! How they survive is crazy! I wouldn’t be able to handle that, I’m having a hard time with 30! It must be absolutely draining and my bet is a lot of older folks die who can’t afford cooler temperatures indoors!
this music does not match the message....
Why would you choose this music? It's not a jolly video
Nice bgm. I can imagine what will happen if the climate get harsher in the next few years. Water will be more precious than gold. I think
Wealthy people are starting to invest in land fields I wonder what that means
Music doesn't match it, this is not summer time people could die 😆
Mmm yeah but in Iraq people can die yeah, but they are pretty resilient to that weather
Random countries :Extreme genocide and war, corruption, global warming, rising inflation, poverty and famine, population collapse.
SCMP: 🎸 🏖 😊 🎶
Tropical country with a temperature of 28 ° very grateful
Same in that POV lol
Music in this video is like heat wave is a joy 😂
Scorching heat 50'C
*Inserts happy summer music
**depressed iraqi with heatwave**
**Play uplifting morning background music**
Can we request the Beach Boys for the next natural disaster piece?
How is no one talking about the background music?
Why would you put a playful/upbeat track on a video like this. These people are literally suffering because of the high temperatures and you put a bg song like they're on vacation.
The mood of the topic is heavily influenced by the music of the video
Earth is getting hotter around equator in recent decades, it'll only gets hotter as we go. I wonder how this will change demography of these countries during peak of this climate shift.
imagine 50 degrees and im wearing my tight and uncomfortable uniform
I like that everyone still wears long sleeves instead of taking off their entire skin and chug 6 liters of ice cold coca-cola.
Reduce the direct sun on the skin area
Those clothes also keep dust and sand away from their skins and also protects them from tanning too much.
To avoid dust and direct contact to sun which may cause sunburn.
Are you seriously going to tell Arabs of Iraq how to live and dress, even though they have been doing just fine for like 1000 years now?
the background music makes the weather seems chill and no problem for them :v
once a wealthiest nation now they are struggling for one day meal.
Pray they get better days 🙏😪
@@rainforesthk2181 honestly we already are yall are just overreacting
@@OFFICERchoclet slowly but surely. I can tell ya that.
نحن لانعاني الجوع لان خيرات بلدنا لاتحصى لكن نعاني من حكومه فاسده هدفها تدمير العراق على حساب ملئ جيوبهم و نعاني ايضا من جيران سوء متسلطين على خيرات البلاد بواسطه الايادي التي تعمل لصالحها من هؤلاء الخونه الفاسدين داخل العراق ومع هذا لم يصل الحال الى مااشرت له
Who picked this cheerful music needs to be fired
man i already felt dying in 30°c hot weather
Situations-💀💀💀
Music-🥳🥳🥳
Baghdad in 2022:
Baghdad Lore: Yes
If I had to choose between 50°C and -50°C, I would go with the latter because coping with cold seems easier. I mean you could take off your clothes to deal with heat but the problem is that you can only do that in your house.
Ya until you know that you can die in your sleep :)
trust me +50°c is much easier to cope 🌝 it ain't that bad
at -50°c life can't survive
@@sel9053 of course it can survive, people live in yakutsk. There is also the astronauts in the space
@@magnaesca165 look at their quality of life, many places on earth have 50’ c and are highly populated ‘cause it’s easier to cope (even my country suffered from 50*c heatwave and it ain’t that bad, everything is quite normal, just avoid going out during afternoon, it’s not like if u go out in afternoon then u will die but more like a precaution)
@@sel9053 no
What’s with the choice of music ???
Summer holiday 😎
Currently in Qatar, it was 46 this afternoon then 48
It's hot even when it's 30°C imagine the heat oof
I am already uncomfortable with 32 degrees. Maybe I will die with 52 degrees😵💫
BGM does not reflect people suffering
Yes it's very cheerful for such scary and hot weather. No joke weather
And then you can imagine.. we have lots of power cuts day and night where the AC turns off.. for maybe 10 minutes to 5 hours..
And they say global warming isn't real
Very hot in Pakistan too 😥
Mashallah 🔥
@@Elysian_520
But you are hindu lol🤣
Have you converted to Islam
50°C is probably non-official
whats with the joyful music lol
50⁰c? I will just hibernate in deep bunker
heat waves be faking them out
Hard time for Water Buffalo herders, man
Why isn't it as simple as what they do in Dubai and make their own rain?? I don't know all about it, I just know they do it.
Money,corruption,division
The music does not fit the subject matter
The women who wear burqa in this weather must be the most heat-resilient in the world!
They make it wet a little before wearing it
why the music make me want to go there for vacation
people acting like a hot summer is new or something....
This is not a normal heat for summer anywhere haha
@@petsandthingsilike yes it is
@@petsandthingsilike -20 years old
What a paradise!
This is going to be the coolest summer.
How
Country dying form heatwave. SCMP: upbeat summer music
I'm over here complaining about 36°C 😳
36c is nothing
I’d un understand the music here .it is that enjoying to see the heat affecting the people life ? The persons there are not enjoying a summer holiday !
It's summer here, but as of this moment it is raining, and I'm wearing a hoodie because of the cold air.
Iraq is one of the richest oil country in the world. I don't understand how Iraqi people accept this tough situation regardless of their backgrounds.
Uh-huh, Iraq isn't.
Why don’t you go to Iraq and you’ll find many people walking around in that heat
@@Crazycreeper349 walking around corruption for the sake of few clerics and corrupt politicians at the expense of ordinary Iraqis. It is very sad to see what's happening in Iraq nowadays.
Why don’t you ask America
@@zahraal-moussawi6512 ask your clerics and corrupt politicians who have become millionaires and billionaires at the expense of ordinary Iraqis.
When youve discovered that gas is not the only one to rise.
Ive felt how it is working under 45degC in Malaysia.. nothing compared to this i guess
Filipinos be like: 😎Coffee you want?
Why use upbeat music?
Where exactly is the creative part?
I think increased use of Air Conditioners everywhere, is also responsible for increase in temperature.
AC's does not release CO2. It only acts as heat exchanger for example the refrigerant in ac absorb heat indoor and outer part of ac blow the heat from refrigerant out and compress with compressor which makes the refrigerant cooler.
I think the heatwave is mostly caused by lack of wind circulation in the area. The heat builds up over time making it hotter
Also increase in CO2 helps in heatwave
Heat released from backside of AC gets mixed in environmental air, released on roads. Example: If we pass through a street of 10 houses, on both sides of street. Each house has AC, whose back is to the street. While walking through that street, our body will feel increased temperature and heat.
There's also heat from the pavement that has been added over the years and all the vehicles people use to travel all day
time to open a business of AC store hehe
How to survive heatwave and prevent High blood.
Wear light color t-shirts (White shirts is better)
Wet face towel (Put it on the head or in the nape)
Drink more water
Eat watery fruits like watermelon
Take a bath daily
If you have no AC at home try to put an Ice cubes in the bucket and place it at the back of Electric fan.
Put indoor plants and more plants outside it could help give fresh air.
Plant more trees for the future of the next generation.
Dude then those trees will born bc of the heat
They should install solar to power air-con.
Restorations and numerous drought preventive measures are to be anticipated/laid out, in order to protect Iraquis from the harmful effects of drought. The waters are to be siphoned back using solar technology, while plantation of numerous plants, fauna are to provide oxygen, and carbon dioxide to be absorbed by the living things. SMEs...businesses standards generally applied and implemented are well coordinated regarding the areas of concerns, attested by both private and public sectors industries, for restoration. Ptd/Trademarks/Copyrivht/LLCs/Registrations/Registered are owned by their respective owners that knows the urgency of projects/restoration/reforestation. 2022 onwards. Respectively /.././.././../G.M Industries.
They lucky it's arid that spritzing water makes a difference. Imagine if it's also humid.
Love the music
On level rain and water on level sky
In dubai its often get to 54deg during the summer
It gets hot here yeah, a lot of people here are saying that they complain about like 30 degrees weather, pathetic
But you have like electricity that we can only dream of
why does this video have cheerful music??
Meanwhile in philippines: perfect temperature to drink a hot of coffee
My country is hot but today, I feel like I could die, I'm not even from The middle east or south Asia.
FEEL BAD FOR THE ANIMAL 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
first it was india and pakistan.now it has changed to iraq
Nah we were always like this but you joined us now, we welcome you, you made it😎
This year the temperature will be stronger 😔
Rich people will manage ...........
Pray for poor people...........
Iraq: summit sun hawaii
Idk why, but in my coutnry that have a rainy season, the heat benefits for those who make dried food
50 celius , how long we gonna tolerate ..
shorts & t-shirts would be an idea,,,,,,,,oh,,,,,wait
Afforestion is the only key
You can tell it's hot
that guys talking
total gibberish ! 🚩👈🤠
The mountain of gold is about to appear
in the philippines we drink coffee to survive
the music is off putting
jesus..i couldn't stomach 30c....nevermind 50c
why the upbeat music? this is a catastrophe
Music is really a bad choice friend
What's with the crazy music 🎶
we are feeling the wrath of mother nature😬
interesting fan idea