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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. [ 200 ] 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 World's Tallest Thermometer is a landmark in Baker, California, US. It is a steel electric sign that commemorates the weather record of 134 °F (57 °C) recorded in nearby Death Valley on July 10, 1913. The sign weighs 76,812 pounds (34,841 kg; 34.841 t) and is held together by 125 cubic yards (96 m 3) of concrete. It stands 134 feet (41 m ...
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.
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 Earth’s average temperature reached an all-time high on Monday and again on Tuesday, in what is shaping up to be a year of record-breaking heat.
List of extreme temperatures in Australia; List of extreme temperatures in Canada; List of extreme temperatures in Greece; List of extreme temperatures in Japan; List of extreme temperatures in Portugal; List of the wettest tropical cyclones by country; Lloró; Lowest temperature recorded on Earth
A ground temperature of 84 °C (183.2 °F) has been recorded in Port Sudan, Sudan. [109] A ground temperature of 93.9 °C (201 °F) was recorded in Furnace Creek, Death Valley, California, United States on 15 July 1972; this may be the highest natural ground surface temperature ever recorded. [110]