Thursday, September 13, 2012

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com: 90 Years Later, Death Valley Sets World Temp Record

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
90 Years Later, Death Valley Sets World Temp Record
Sep 13th 2012, 15:39

The searing heat waves that blanketed the nation earlier this summer sent temperatures soaring well above 110°F in parts of the U.S., but that's nowhere close to the hottest temperature on record — an almost unimaginable 136.4° F, taken on September 13, 1922, in the Sahara Desert at El Azizia, Libya. That's what the Guinness Book of World Records says, and if you don't trust a source that feels the need to document the world's fastest toilet or the world's largest collection of traffic cones, it's what the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says as well.

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