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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 ...

 The city of Belgrade, perched dramatically at the confluence of the mighty Sava and Danube rivers, awoke on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, not to the typical hesitant light of a potentially showery May morning, but to the crisp, unqualified brilliance of pure sunshine. It was a day that promised to be a delightful anomaly in a month often characterized by its generous, sometimes dramatic, rainfall. The air, instead of holding the usual spring dampness, felt clear and invigorated, carrying with it the promise of warmth that the sun's early rays were already beginning to deliver. As the sun climbed above the eastern horizon, its light spilled across the red rooftops and historical facades of the city, illuminating the ancient stones of Kalemegdan Fortress and glinting off the calm surfaces of the two great rivers. The forecast for this particular Tuesday was resolute: sunny, with a high of 64 degrees Fahrenheit (a mild 18 degrees Celsius) and a cool overnight low of 44 degrees Fahrenheit (a...