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According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the highest registered air temperature on Earth was 56.7 °C (134.1 °F) in Furnace Creek Ranch, California, located in Death Valley in the United States, on 10 July 1913. [1][5][6] This record was surpassed by a reading of 57.8 °C (136.0 °F), registered on 13 September 1922, in ...
The warmest day on record for the entire planet was 22 July 2024 when the highest global average temperature was recorded at 17.16 °C (62.89 °F). [ 20 ] The previous record was 17.09 °C (62.76 °F) set the day before on 21 July 2024. [ 20 ] The month of July 2023 was the hottest month on record globally. [ 21 ]
Both Sunday's mark and last year's record obliterate the previous record of 16.8 degrees Celsius (62.24 degrees Fahrenheit), which itself was only a few years old, set in 2016. Without human-caused climate change, records would be broken nowhere near as frequently, and new cold records would be set as often as hot ones.
Before last year, the previous recorded hottest day was in 2016, when average temperatures were at 16.8 degrees Celsius (62.24 degrees Fahrenheit). July is generally the hottest month for the ...
Death Valley's record dates back over 100 years, to an unthinkably hot July day when temperature (reportedly) reached 134 degrees. ... Earth's hottest temperature will remain an elusive record.
Last year was Earth’s hottest in ... global temperatures in 2023 were higher than in any year going back to at least 1850, reaching “exceptionally high” levels and averaging 1.48 degrees ...
165 K, glass point of supercooled water. 184.0 K (–89.2 °C), coldest air recorded on Earth. 192 K, Debye temperature of ice. 273.15 K (0 °C), melting point of bound water. 273.16 K (0.01 °C), temperature of triple point of water. c. 293 K, room temperature. 373.15 K (100 °C), boiling point of bound water at sea level.
This year is likely to be Earth’s hottest on ... to be a new annual surface temperature record.” This year, the Earth is expected to see temperatures that are more than 2.1 degrees above the ...