What was the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth?
September 13, 1922 the maximum temperature in Al Aziziya, Libya was 136F. Though this is the hottest temperature ever recorded, the hottest place in the world is arguably California’s Death Valley. Here’s an excerpt from pg. 18 in Christopher C. Burt’s book, “EXTREME WEATHER”: —————– Temperatures in Death Valley, located 282 feet below sea level in interior California, have been maintained since 1911 at the Greenland Ranch near Furnace Creek. With an average daily high of 115 (sic) and low of 87 (sic) during the month of July, Death Valley is far and away the hottest location in North America and perhaps the hottest place in the world. [Death Valley’s] absolute maximum temperature of 134 (sic), recorded on July 10, 1913, stands as the hottest ever observed in the Western Hemisphere and has been surpassed globally only by a reading of 136 (sic) measured in Al Aziziyah, Libya, located 20 miles south of Tripoli (not in the Sahara Desert, by the way). A 135 (sic) reading claimed
