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The list of weather records includes the most extreme occurrences of weather phenomena ... 2016 and 2017 readings in Kuwait and Iran have also matched the 2013 Death ...
In summer, average daily high temperatures range from 42 to 46 °C (108 to 115 °F); [1] the highest ever temperature recorded in Kuwait was 54 °C (129 °F) at Mitribah on 21 July 2016 which is the highest recorded temperature in Asia and also the third highest in the world.
The decertification of the former record in Libya has since cast doubt on the validity of the 1913 recording. [7] If the 1913 record were to be decertified, the highest established recorded air temperature on Earth would be 54.0 °C (129.2 °F), also recorded in Death Valley on 20 June 2013, and in Mitribah, Kuwait on 21 July 2016. [8]
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.
English: Charts comparing percentages of Earth's surface reaching record temperatures since 1951, comparing records for January, April, July and October, from NOAA data. Source of data for series of charts titled "mm Month - Percent of global area at temperature records - Global warming - NOAA.svg": — Source's title/subtitle: "Mean Monthly ...
Mitribah is a weather station (40551 in the World Meteorological Organization database) in northwest Kuwait. On July 21, 2016, the temperature at this location hit the second highest temperature ever reliably recorded on Earth at 54 °C (129.2 °F). [1] [2] [3] [4]
Global climate records are typically broken by tiny fractions of a degree, as was the case with this one: Sunday’s temperature was just 0.01 degrees Celsius above 2023’s record.
This is a list of countries and sovereign states by temperature. Average yearly temperature is calculated by averaging the minimum and maximum daily temperatures in the country, averaged for the years 1991 – 2020, from World Bank Group , derived from raw gridded climatologies from the Climatic Research Unit .