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The theoretical maximum possible ground surface temperature has been estimated to be between 90 and 100 °C (194 and 212 °F) for dry, darkish soils of low thermal conductivity. [14] While there is no highest confirmed ground temperature , a reading of 93.9 °C (201.0 °F) – the highest ever among unverified claims – was allegedly recorded ...
According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the highest temperature ever recorded was 56.7 °C (134.1 °F) on 10 July 1913 in Furnace Creek (Greenland Ranch), California, United States, [12] but the validity of this record is challenged as possible problems with the reading have since been discovered.
Earth's hottest temperature will remain an elusive record. ... you would see a range of possible temperatures including some extremes. But if you monitored it for 2,000 years, you would likely see ...
Last year was the planet’s hottest in recorded history, NASA announced, marking two years in a row that global temperatures have shattered records. Last year was the hottest in Earth's recorded ...
(At the very least, it will go down as the hottest temperature ever recorded in August.) “Reliably recorded” is the key phrase when it comes to the hottest place on Earth. On July 10, 1913 ...
Temperatures of 35 °C (95 °F) were reached in the Benelux and Germany (in some areas 38 °C (100 °F)), while Great Britain recorded 36.5 °C (97.7 °F). Many heat records were broken (including the hottest ever July temperature in Great Britain) and many people who experienced the heat waves of 1976 and 2003 drew comparisons with them.
A research base in the Antarctic has recorded the hottest temperature ever for the continent amid global alarm over the climate change crisis. A spokeswoman for the World Meteorological ...
The North African town of Ouargla, Algeria, which is located in the Sahara Desert, just experienced temperatures of 124 F, or 51 C. ... Africa may have just seen its hottest day ever recorded.