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  2. Africa may have just seen its hottest day ever recorded - AOL

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    The North African town of Ouargla, Algeria, which is located in the Sahara Desert, just experienced temperatures of 124 F, or 51 C, which may be the highest ever recorded on the continent.

  3. List of weather records - Wikipedia

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    The temperatures of the hot variants (BWh, BSh) of these climates have the potential to exceed 50 °C (122 °F) during the hottest seasons. 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 ...

  4. Highest temperature recorded on Earth - Wikipedia

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    Air measurements are noted by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and Guinness World Records among others as the standard to be used for determining the official record. 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 ...

  5. Sahara - Wikipedia

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    The Sahara (/ s ə ˈ h ɑːr ə /, / s ə ˈ h ær ə /) is a desert spanning across North Africa.With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi), it is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Arctic.

  6. Dallol (ghost town) - Wikipedia

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    Dallol features an extreme version of a hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification BWh) typical of the Danakil Desert. Dallol is the hottest place year-round on the planet and currently holds the record high average temperature for an inhabited location on Earth, where an average annual temperature of 34.6 °C (94.3 °F) was recorded ...

  7. 25 Hottest Countries in the World - AOL

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    In this article, we will be discussing the 25 hottest countries in the world. You can skip our detailed analysis of the sun’s temporal temperature distribution and go directly to the 5 Hottest ...

  8. The gigantic dunes rising up out of the world’s oldest desert

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    Here are eight different ways to discover desert Africa: Trek some of the world’s tallest sand dunes (Namibia) ... 4x4 tours, helicopters, hot-air balloons, and trekking to the summit of sandy ...

  9. Dasht-e Lut - Wikipedia

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    The Lut Desert, widely referred to as Dasht-e Lut (Persian: دشت لوت, "Emptiness Plain"), is a salt desert located in the provinces of Kerman and Sistan-Baluchestan, Iran. It is the world's 33rd-largest desert , and was included in UNESCO 's World Heritage List on July 17, 2016. [ 2 ]