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 The late afternoon sun, a warm benevolent eye in a sky of improbable, flawless blue, began its slow descent over the majestic sprawl of Istanbul on this Thursday, May 15th, 2025. It wasn't a day of meteorological drama – no towering thunderheads threatening to break the sky, no biting winds whipping off the Black Sea. Instead, it was a day gifted with temperance, a gentle embrace of late spring that allowed the city, in all its layered, magnificent chaos, to simply be . The forecast for the remaining hours promised this continued grace: a temperature hovering comfortably around 19-20 degrees Celsius, a whisper of a breeze from the southeast at a mild 10 km/h, and the certainty of clear skies transitioning into a star-dusted night, where the temperature would eventually settle to a cool but not cold 14 degrees. It was, in short, a perfect Istanbul evening unfolding, a story told not in tumultuous meteorological events, but in the soft play of light, the gentle movement of air, and ...