Terrestrial température : Recent reading could perhaps become the next record.
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Recent reading could perhaps become the next record.
In a study published in May in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, American researchers unveiled a new world record for terrestrial temperature measured in Iran and Mexico.
Contrary to popular belief, Death Valley in the United States would not be the hottest place in the world! However, it is true that the world record for maximum temperature was indeed measured on July 10, 1913 in this place considered to be one of the most hostile on the planet. A weather station had recorded what remains officially the highest temperature ever measured on Earth: 56.7 ° C.
However, a temperature of 58 degrees was recorded on September 13, 1922 in El Azizia, Libya, but this record was invalidated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Experts had investigated in detail from 2010 to 2012 and concluded that the reading was probably overestimated by 7 degrees, due to problematic devices and an inexperienced observer. But a new, much more recent reading could perhaps become the next record.
Based on terrestrial (and non-atmospheric) temperatures measured over the past 18 years by NASA satellites, four American researchers revealed on May 10 that the highest temperature in the world had been recorded in the Lout desert, in Iran, and the Sonoran Desert, Mexico and is estimated to be 80.8 ° C.
With such a temperature, one could thus think that the place wants to be desert because the human body cannot support such temperatures, but yet some animals could be observed by scientists such as dragonflies, geckos, mice, lizards, foxes. or snakes. It remains to be seen whether this observed record will soon be validated by the WMO.
It is real investigative work that is carried out in several stages before a possible record is validated. the on-site teams test the probes and verify that the equipment is deemed to be functional.
If so, then a climate extremes committee is convened to validate the observation. These assessments can take time, and comparisons with the temperatures of recent months should also be made.
If it is found to be compliant, this temperature will become a given.
After this approval, the last step:it must finally be validated by a higher body: the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). This body, which depends on the UN, serves as a reference worldwide on issues of weather, climate and water
