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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 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 2011, a ground temperature of 84 °C (183.2 °F) was recorded in Port Sudan, Sudan. [8] The theoretical maximum possible ground surface temperature has been ...
The hottest land surface on Earth recorded by the Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer installed on NASA's Aqua satellite from 2003 to 2010 was in Dasht-e Lut, with land surface temperatures reaching 70.7 °C (159.3 °F), though the air temperature is cooler, ranging from 45 °C (113 °F) to 55 °C (131 °F) in the daytime during summer.
The researchers analyzed global average temperatures from November 2022 through October and found they were about 1.32 degrees Celsius — or 2.4 degrees Fahrenheit — above preindustrial averages.
Last Sunday was Earth’s hottest day in all recorded history, European climate agency says. Without human-caused climate change, records would be broken nowhere near as frequently, and new cold ...
BY SETH BORENSTEIN. July 23, 2024 at 5:08 PM. WASHINGTON (AP) — On Sunday, the Earth sizzled to the hottest day ever measured by humans, yet another heat record shattered in the past couple of ...
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]
Over the course of the year, 7.3 billion people, or 90% of humanity, endured at least 10 days of high temperatures that Last 12 months on Earth were the hottest ever recorded, analysis finds Skip ...