HOTTEST SPOT
NEAR, TRIPOLI. Among the statistics published in the current issue of -the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society is the highest' shade temperature ever recorded in any part of the world. Until recently, it is stated, the hottest region on the earth’s surface was always considered to be Death Valley, California, where a shade temperature of 134.1 degrees was registered •at Greenland Ranch on July 10, 1913. It now appears, however, that even this remarkable record has been surpassed, and that the text-books will have to be altered. On September 13, 1922, a properly sheltered thermometer rose to 136.4 degrees at the Italian settlement at Azi'zTa, in the' semi-desert region of North Africa, about twenty-five miles south of Tripoli. The highest shade temperature ever officially registered in the British Isles was 100 degrees at Greenwich Observatory on August 9, 1911. In Paris 101 degrees was reached in August, 1765. The world’s record cold is 94 degrees below zero in Siberia, so that the difference between the two extremes is no less than 230 degrees.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 7 January 1925, Page 7
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177HOTTEST SPOT Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 7 January 1925, Page 7
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