Whats the record for the highest nighttime temperature ever recorded?
Death Valley, Calif., recorded a low of 104° on the night of July 23-24, 2003, which is the highest overnight low anywhere in the world that I could find. Outside of the U.S. Desert Southwest, the only 100° minimum I ve seen was 100° on July 30, 1989, at Muscat, Oman. During this summer’s heat wave in southern Italy, the town of Cefalu, Sicily, dropped to only 98.1° on the night of June 24-25. This was the highest minimum on record for Europe. This page from Death Valley National Park has more about the weather and climate of the hottest, driest place in the USA. (Answered by writer Christopher Burt, author of Extreme Weather, Sept.
