HOTTEST SPOT.
is!EAR TRIPOLI. Among the statistics published in the current issue of the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society is the highest shade temperatuie ever recorded in any part of the would. Until recently, it is stated, the hottest region of' the earth's surface was always considered to be Death Valley. California, where a shade temperature of 13-1.1 degrees was registered at Greenland Ranch on July It), 11)13. It now appeals, however, that even this remarkable record has been surpassed, and that dhe text-books wiU have to be altered. On September 13, 1922, a properly j sheltered thermometer rose to 136.1 degrees at the Italian settlement at Azizia, in the semi-dose ivj region of North Africa, about twenty-five miles south of Tripoli. The highest shade temperature ever officially registered in tho British Isles was 100 degrees at Greenwich Observatory on August 9, 1911. In Paris 104 degrees was reached in August-, 1765. Tho world’s record cold is 94 degrees below zero in Siberia, sq that the difference between the two extremes is no less than 230 degrees.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 2064, 8 January 1925, Page 7
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