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The current official highest registered air temperature on Earth is 56.7 °C (134.1 °F), recorded on 10 July 1913 at Furnace Creek Ranch, in Death Valley in the United States. [1] For few years, a former record that was measured in Libya had been in place, until it was decertified in 2012 based on evidence that it was an erroneous reading.
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).
The hot streak in 2024 was ... the city of Phoenix logged a record 113 straight days with triple-digit high temperatures last year. The previous record of 76 consecutive days was set in 1993 ...
Xinchang, Zhejiang endured extreme hot weather of 44.1 °C (111.4 °F), on 8 August Fenghua, Zhejiang reached a new all-time record high temperature of 43.5 °C (110.3 °F), Changsha, Hunan in July 2013 achieved a high temperature "Grand Slam", all 31 days in July set a new daily record high temperature of over 35 °C (95 °F).
While North America’s record 134° F has stood for more than a century, Antarctica and Asia have set temperature records in the past decade. Graphic: Temperature records around the world Skip to ...
Including April, the world's average temperature was the highest on record for a 12-month period - 1.61 degrees Celsius above the average in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period.
The temperature on land rose by 1.59 °C while over the ocean it rose by 0.88 °C. [3] In 2020 the temperature was 1.2 °C above the pre-industrial era. [4] In September 2023 the temperature was 1.75 °C above pre-industrial level and during the entire year of 2023 is expected to be 1.4 °C above it. [5]
Sea surface temperatures are also tracking high to begin 2025, which are associated with unusually high air temperatures. January 2025 finished as the second-highest sea surface temperature on ...