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One may notice a discrepancy between data in this article and what is found at the external link.
The webpage "World Temperature Extremes", lists the world high as 135.9 F, but the Guinness Book of World Records (and some other sources I can't remember right now) has 136.4 F for the same place.
I somewhat artifically wrote 99.5 F for Hawaii, because its max is, as I understand, somewhere between 99.5 and 99.9 F. A common quiz-bowl trivia fact is that Hawaii is the only state in the US not to have a recorded temperature of 100 F or higher, though a reading between 99.5 and 99.9, on a Farenheit thermometer only trusted to 1 F, was rounded up to 100.
I have read that the Siachin Glacier get below -60 regularly.
- adding to your point, I was checking for a source that backs up the 134.7 high given for july 3 2001 in the death valley article, but found nothing to support it. I did find a webpage that I quoted in the death valley talk here:
- "September 13, 1922 the maximum temperature in Al Aziziya, Libya was 136°F. Though this is the hottest temperature ever recorded, the hottest place in the world is arguably California's Death Valley. Here's an excerpt from pg. 18 in Christopher C. Burt's book, "EXTREME WEATHER":"
- See the webpage, or talk at death valley for more background that might be useful for this article. I have no idea about the reliability or availability of Burt's book, but maybe someone can review it as a source to this article. Mulp 23:26, 4 August 2006 (UTC)