Where is the hottest place on earth?
” I wanted to answer, but both she and her assistant’s hands were in my mouth at the time. I grunted. I was thinking about the core. She then said; “I guess that would be at the molten core at the center of the earth.” I grunted in agreement. But then I thought, that was not on the earth. That is in the earth. She and the assistant continued to work. I tried to keep my tongue out of the way. But was dying to add my two sense. So I am thinking about the hottest temperature. I knew I had heard that it has gotten to be 120 degrees in some places. So I write 120 with my hands. She said “One hundred. I couldn’t make out the rest?” I write a big 20 in the air. She gets it. I’m thinking. It must get hotter. I think I once read that it was hotter somewhere. The dentist continues musing. “It must get hottest in the desert. But maybe it is in the tropics around the equator.” I’m thinking it probably feels hotter in the in the tropics. The dental assistant gives her opinion. She suggests Death Va
Temperature records from weather stations give that distinction to El Azizia, Libya, which hit a sweltering 57.8 degrees Celsius (136 F) on September 13, 1922, but there have likely been hotter locations beyond the scattered network of weather stations. This image provides a more complete picture of the Earth’s temperature. The image was created from data collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite, which flies overhead at about 1:30 p.m. local time, close to the hottest part of the day. MODIS records land surface temperatures, which reflect how hot the ground is to the touch. As anyone who has walked barefoot across a sandy beach or a slab of concrete on a summer’s day can attest, the land underfoot is hotter than the air at head level. As a result, the temperatures shown here could be as much as 40 degrees Celsius hotter than the air temperatures recorded at weather stations. This image shows the hottest land surface temperature MOD
