Thanks Haymans74, i flew out feeling less down thanks to you posting that weather report.

The BBC weather report that i had been viewing which predicted rain and cloud couldnt have been more wrong. It was just as you posted, lovely. Perfect weather.

I never understand why people on the turkey forum and say the temp was 50+, temps are taken in the shade and under certain conditions. In the summer put out therometer in the sun in this country and it will go betewwn 40c and 50c but you would never say the temps over here 50c, so why do people do it when they go to turkey. You will get the same results with a therometer in the sun anywhere around the med. I have looked up the record temps for holiday resorts around turkey and I think the highest hit is 48c but that was rare, at the end of june and the couple of weeks of july temps will often get above 38c 100f to max of 44c 108f but once the end of july comes temps will be 31c to 35c, 91f to 95f with only the odd day above 38c 100f.

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According to the local media when I was in Icmeler just over a week ago, it got up to 49 degrees and it felt it as well. The average daily temperature was 39 and 27 at night. It's the hottest I've ever known Icmeler at the beginning of September.

Darren

Well Im certaınly cool here at the moment!!

I am no weather expert but i do know that when i was in Olu Deniz early July last year the temperates were soaring and i have never experienced anything like it in this country not even in the mid-day sun. Temperature was simply too much to do anything.
Travelled 8th-15th September this year and it was easily mid-30s (temps were showing 28 degrees even at 8.30pm) but was nothing like the weather in July so i can believe that the July temps are very high.

The temps can feel higher than they really are due to humidty levels. No doubt its very hot and too hot to do anything, a temp between 95f to 104f would be high enough to make it too hot to do anything and remember I said the end of june to mid july are hottest time of the year. Just because the local madia says the temp is x doesn't mean it is, try and get the official recorded temp. 49c isnt hit often in mid east desert places like teran, dubia , meccas. kuwait city. kuwait city is one of the hottest places and they hit 49c a couple of times a year. I know turkey get temps over 100f in september but it is short lived and its the late june to mid july period where 104 to 108 can be experienced over a longer period of time and sometimes the higher temps can go through the whole of july. You will find official temps are taken at airports which are normall more inland than the costal area's which are slighly cooler.

giff remember last year turkey had a heat wave where temps were higher than normal, but then people where saying 55c, that would of been just off the record temps recorded at death valley and a town in libiya, death valley was recored in 1923 and 1950's I think it was 1956 or 1957 and libiya was recorded in 1958. I remember yamen had a heat wave and temps were coming in at between 50c to 52c I can't remember the year.

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I can only go off the temperature listed by the local news channel, that's what they stated while I was there. The Marti Resort in Icmeler has a weather station by the hotel. That was reporting 39 degrees most days at approx 4pm (when I was walking past from diving) so I imagine it would have been more at the height of the sun. Speaking to locals and the hotel staff, they said it's been a very warm summer.

You will find official temps are taken at airports which are normall more inland than the costal area's which are slighly cooler

Which is partly the point. Those readings are only accurate in the location they were taken and isn't necassarily the temperature in the resorts. While diving in Defneli, about 12km north-east of Icmeler, it was quite pleasant in the secluded bay. It was hot, but a good few degrees cooler than at the other side of the Peninsular around the Marmaris-Icmeler area. You could feel the difference.

Darren

Dazbo

39c 102f would be a more realistic temp and maximum temps tend to happen around 4pm, the problem here people quote temps taken in direct sunlight which are wrong, its only temps taken in the shade under strict conditions which are accurate.

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It had cooled down a few degrees by 4pm as I could sit out in it then. Between 1 and 3pm was the hottest. That photo was taken the first week I was there, I didn't dive the second week as we met up with friends. The second week was hotter than the first, hence the reported 49 degrees one day so I can well believe the reported 50 degrees through the summer.

Darren

Dazbo

This is the official met office and here is the forecast for antalya and the temp at 11.20am 26c, izmir temp at 11 am 20.7c 69f, bodrum 22c 72f at 11am, marmaris 23c 73f at 11am look at the links below. Its shame they don't provide a history page to look back at previous months.

http://www.meteor.gov.tr/2006/english/eng-cities.aspx?secimNo=8

http://www.meteor.gov.tr/2006/english/eng-cities.aspx?secimNo=41

http://www.meteor.gov.tr/2006/english/eng-cities.aspx?secimNo=84

http://www.meteor.gov.tr/2006/english/eng-cities.aspx?secimNo=88

When I see 50c and 55c on here go to the above site to see what the true temp is. I never said temps don't get high, 50 is a extreme and not the norm.

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I take your point about taking readings in direct sunlight, and peoples perceptions aren't always a true record of temperature. But it certainly has been as hot as some of the people on here have mentioned, I've had first hand experience. Not all the time, but extreme days where temperatures have soared and maybe lasted a couple or few days. Friends I have in Icmeler have said the same thing. This is the 5th time I've visited Icmeler at this time of year (and just booked for next September) and it was certainly the hottest average I've known. I know temperatures over the last week have dropped significantly. The friends I mentioned came home at the weekend and said they even had a few spots of rain on Thursday, a first since May according to locals.

Darren

Dazbo

That is my point, reporting temps recorded in the sun is no help to anybody. Next summer go to the state met office and when you see it was 50c today the next day should be similar and look at what the actual temps are coming up at. The difference from 42c to 50c would feel very hot but to tell the difference by just standing in the temps would be very difficult tell the temps apart and add in direct sunlight. Remember people have flown in from the UK and are suddenly expose to very temps, all they think its so hot and see a temp reading in the sun and believe it because they are feeling very hot and the sun is strong, much strong than in the UK and it confirms, it must be true the 50c.

If people were reporting temps 35c to 44c which is very possible but 49c, 50c and 55c is pushing it a bit. Remember what I said about temps being taken in the shade under strict condition. A unofficial weather station may not conform to the standards set down to get a accurate reading. I would say a unofficial station would be accurate from 9pm once its dark.

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I do agree with you but I can only go off what was being shown while I was there at the time, and the local news channels which presumably get the figures from official sources have reported the extreme temperatures as quoted on here. In my case, it was 49 degrees.

Darren

well i'm back and i do have to say that it was hot hot hot

but it has cooled down over the past 48 hours and there was more cloud coming in

saturday night was unbelievable we was sat in a LMT bar in gumbet and it started raining

1 hour later it was torrential, and the roof was leaking in, people were moving further into the bar, and the lightening all over the sea was spetactular.

Then all the electric went out over 90% of gumbet. , and we all had a ball in the dark, don't know how long the electric was off but still wasn't on when we went to bed around 4.00am

The streets were flooded and outside our apts there was at least 2 ft of water.

I would have loved to have seen that lightening over the sea.

Me too Giff, I love watching the storms in Turkey, they are so spectacular.

Best storms I have ever seen was in Texas and they lasted for hours.

We were in Belek from Sept 9th to 23rd and boy was is it hot, hot, hot for the time of year. Absolutely brilliant. So nice to sit outside at night watching hotel entertainment, having our drinkies
We experienced a massive thunderstorm on Saturday Sept.20th, while about to watch the evening entertainment, quite spectactular. Everyone had to rush for cover but we all looked like drowned rats.
All the pathways were flooded up to ankle deep and the swimming pool turned a mucky brown with the run-off of ground from the gardens, but by the next day all was well and back in the pool.