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Tunisia is the eighteenth most water stressed country in the world. Tunisia's climate is divided into seven bioclimatic zones, with the main difference between the north and the rest of the country being due to the Tunisian hills which separate the regions subject to a Mediterranean climate and a typical hot desert climate of the Sahara - the largest hot desert in the world.
On 24 July, Tunis, Tunisia reached a temperature of 48.9 °C (120.0 °F). On 24 July, Ghar el-Melh in northern Tunisia reached a temperature of 50 °C (122 °F). [31] Heavy rain flooded Al-Marj and Derna on 12 September, killing nearly 250 in Derna, Libya. [32] Up to 20,000 were killed on 14 September, as new floods hit Bengazi, Libya. [33]
The United Nations predicts that Tunisia will experience an average annual temperature of 69.3 °F between 2040 and 2059, compared to a global predicted average of 61 °F. [6] Similarly, the Tunisian National Institute of Meteorology predicts a temperature increase of 1.8 °C by 2050 and an increase of 3 °C by 2100 in Tunisia. [ 6 ]
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Highest dew point temperature: A dew point of 35 °C (95 °F) — while the temperature was 42 °C (108 °F) — was observed at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, at 3:00 p.m. on 8 July 2003. [ 201 ] Highest heat index : In the observation above at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, the heat index ("feels like" temperature) was 81.1 °C (178.0 °F).