Hottest temperature on Earth recorded in US


California’s Death Valley has recorded a temperature of 54.4C or 129.9F at Pacific time 3.41 pm on Sunday afternoon, according to the United States National Weather Service’s automated station at Furnace Creek near the border with Nevada.

A statement from National Weather Service said, “This observed high temperature is considered preliminary and not yet official. If verified, it would be the hottest temperature officially verified since July 1913, also at Death Valley.”

According to the World Meteorological Organization, 56.7°C or 134F on 10 July 1913 at Greenland Ranch is the highest recorded temperature in Death Valley which still stands as the hottest ever recorded on the planet’s surface.

The Daily Mail reports, Oakland, California, hit 100F for the first time in August on Friday Source: https://www.daily-bangladesh.com/