The highest temperature exceeds 50 degrees Celsius! Iraq's electricity demand exceeds capacity causing major power outages.

Iraq's electricity demand has soared in recent days due to the high temperatures, causing a widespread collapse of the national power grid on the 11th and power outages in many areas in the central and southern parts of the country. Agence France-Presse quoted the Iraqi electricity department as saying that due to factors such as "record high temperatures" and "soaring electricity demand," two transmission lines of the national power grid were interrupted that day, causing over 6000 megawatts of power to "evaporate" in a short period of time, and forcing many power plants to stop operating.