The Hottest Place on Earth
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The earth has a lot of warm places: forest fires, lava floes, iron foundries, the inside of your toaster oven, nuclear reactors, and so forth. But, if we're just talking about regular old sun-heats-the-earth climate and weather, where on the earth's surface is hottest? Some might say "Death Valley," which isn't a bad guess, as the 56.7°Celsius temperature observed 100 years ago on July 10, 1913-- at aptly named Furnace Creek -- remains, according to official weather statistics, the highest temperature ever recorded. However, weather stations measure air temperature in the shade about a meter and a half above the ground. And as you know if you've ever walked barefoot across a beach on a hot day, surfaces in direct sunlight can ...
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The earth has a lot of warm places: forest fires, lava floes, iron foundries, the inside of your toaster oven, nuclear reactors, and so forth. But, if we're just talking about regular old sun-heats-the-earth climate and weather, where on the earth's surface is hottest? Some might say "Death Valley," which isn't a bad guess, as the 56.7°Celsius temperature observed 100 years ago on July 10, 1913-- at aptly named Furnace Creek -- remains, according to official weather statistics, the highest temperature ever recorded. However, weather stations measure air temperature in the shade about a meter and a half above the ground. And as you know if you've ever walked barefoot across a beach on a hot day, surfaces in direct sunlight can ...
