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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 ...
Temperatures measured directly on the ground may exceed air temperatures by 30 to 50 °C (54 to 90 °F). [6] The highest natural ground surface temperature ever recorded may have been an alleged reading of 93.9 °C (201.0 °F) at Furnace Creek, California, United States, on 15 July 1972. [7]
In Luang Prabang, Laos, temperatures reached 42.7 °C (108.9 °F), the highest in Laos' recorded history, while neighboring Thailand reached a record-tying 44.6 °C (112.3 °F). At least 13 people died in Maharashtra state, India, as a result of heatstroke. [141] In May, Vietnam recorded its highest ever temperature of 44.1 °C (111.4 °F). [142]
A previous record of 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit, recorded in 1922 in El Azizia, Libya, was disqualified 90 years later, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. The organization noted that ...
Last year was the planet’s hottest in recorded history, NASA announced, marking two years in a row that global temperatures have shattered records. ... days with triple-digit high temperatures ...
The hottest air temperature ever recorded in Death Valley was 134 °F (56.7 °C), on July 10, 1913, at Greenland Ranch (now Furnace Creek), [6] which, as of 2022, is the highest atmospheric temperature ever recorded on the Earth's surface. [5]
According to IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, in the last 170 years, humans have caused the global temperature to increase to the highest level in the last 2,000 years. The current multi-century period is the warmest in the past 100,000 years. [3] The temperature in the years 2011-2020 was 1.09 °C higher than in 1859–1890.
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 ...