Talk:Temperature extremes

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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:

http://www.piercecollege.com/offices/weather/faq.html#Eeeexcelent

"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)

[edit] Death Valley

First off, this article is in terrible shape. The middle section looks like it was written by a second grader.

Most of the oldest records were taken under not proper conditions: so that the claimed 58.0C of Al Azizya, Libya is certainly a wrong measurement, taken during a day in which none of the neighbour stations recorded more than 35C. Morover, the thermometer was highly overexposed to sunrays, frequently covered by dust (during storms) and very close to the sand soil.

The absolute world record of temperature was set last July 2005 in the Death Valley during an exceptional hot month with the highest value of 53.9C. Another place which has the potential of reaching between 53C and 54C is the Iranian desert. Unfortunately, due to the lack of stations in large areas of it, there is no certain data.

Perhaps I should change it myself, but I will as soon as I can sort the facts from the rubbish. This article claims Death Valley broke the record in 2005, while all other temperature related articles say that Libya still holds the record from 1922. Granted, the Libyan reading could be from extreme ground temperatures, but this article contradicts what other articles say. The Death Valley article doesn't even claim any world records. I think this article needs a complete rewrite or at least a good cleaning. —№tǒŖïøŭş4lĭfė ♫♪ 07:23, 5 November 2006 (UTC)