136°F. That’s the record for the highest recorded temperature on Earth,
a measurement taken in 1922 in El Azizia, Libya. Just a relative stone’s throw from the ocean, too.
But what if they were wrong?
Fántoli (1954,1958) examined the record and researched the exposure, the instrument shelter, and the instruments themselves. A discussion in English of Fántoli’s 1954 work appears in Gentilli, 1955. Fántoli generally concluded that the probable extreme maximum should have been only 132.8°F (56°C). Lamb (1958) noted that the extreme occurred following two days of hot, southerly winds and that latent heat may have been added to the air mass due to rain south of location.
If I were Death Valley, I’d take the debate to Twitter.
[image via GlobalWarmingIsBS]
Some like it hot but you can’t tell how hot ’till you try.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=some+like+it+hot+robert+palmer+music+video&aq=f
Oh and this one too, because it’s good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwCHFaarTjY
The problem is, you can measure exactly how hot it is, or where, but not both at once.
This is false.
I have personally seen in excess of 140 deg f. In Balad Iraq, while serving in the military in ’05. I am here again and anticipate the same. I have heard this before that the worlds record is in the 130′s but I saw the thermometer myself and can say its bunk.
57.7 Celsius for those not still living in the Stone Age.
@InsertFingerHere – I prefer to say we have a sense of history
, but to each his own. Really, DegC vs DegF is an arbitrary choice. You could just as well use 330.9 DegK or 595.7DegR.
The SI/SAE conversion that really gets me is power. For some reason, in the USA we use kW for electricity but BTU for heating and cooling. I convert between the two of these WAY too many times a day.
You should have precised “without a volcano”.
Because a volcano is hotter ( i think ) AND on earth.
@Insertfingerhere
THANK YOU
Its common courtesy to include at least both temperatures. We dont all use the Kings measurements
@ ranomatic
Celsius isn’t all that arbitrary. 0deg C is the freezing point of water and 100deg C is the boiling point.
whereas Fahrenheit is based on a compound of something like ammonium chloride salt ice. which is pretty much just the coldest thing he could make. kind of arbitrary
anyways i nit-pick kelvin is the only scale for me
@#3:
You might have seen 140 degrees on the thermometer, but that doesn’t mean it was 140 degrees. Accurate temps have to be recorded in the shade, away from large pieces of concrete or asphalt, with air moving over the calibrated sensing element, etc.