Why Tunisia is searching "tomorrow's weather": meteorological institute puts 19 governorates on orange alert

Tunisia's National Institute of Meteorology (INM) has placed 19 of the country's 24 governorates on orange alert, eleven of them at the strictest tier, with sirocco winds and temperatures of 40 to 47 degrees Celsius that, with the heat index, could reach 49 to 51 degrees in coastal areas through the week. That is why "tomorrow's weather" was one of Tunisia's most-searched queries this week, tracked over 50,000 times on Google Trends: it is not idle curiosity, it is a warning people are actually planning their day around.

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