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What's the Highest Temperature Ever Recorded in the U.S.? In 1911, the first permanent weather station was established at what is now Furnace Creek Ranch. On July 10, 1913, the weather station measured a record high of 134 F (57 C), a temperature that has not been beat anywhere in the United States since. [Related: The Harshest Environments on Earth ].
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Death Valley hit hottest U.S. June temperature ever recorded Sunday: 129 Death Valley now shares the record for hottest U.S. June temperature ever recorded with Volcano, Cali, which shot up to 129 on June 23, 1902. The 129-degree temperature was still five degrees shy of Death Valley’s all-time record high of 134. This 134-degree reading, the hottest measured anywhere in the world – was established July 10, 1913.
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The World's Highest Temperatures for Each Continent Until September 2012, the world record for the world's hottest temperature was held by Al Aziziyah, Libya with a high temperature of 136.4°F (58°C) reached on September 13, 1922. However, the World Meteorological Organization determined that the world's former record high temperature was miscalculated by about 12.6°F (7°C).
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California town forecast to be the hottest place in the world EVER today: Temperatures soar in West again as heat wave intensifies Forecasters have their eye on Palm Springs, California, which they say could break the world record highest temperature, reaching in excess of 134 degrees Fahrenheit today. The heat has already claimed one life. Paramedics responded to a Las Vegas home without air conditioning on Saturday and found an elderly man dead.
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Hottest Cities in United States Hottest Cities in United States. Two major cities contend for the title of hottest city in the United States. The city that comes out on top depends on how you measure heat. Phoenix Arizona excels at extreme hot weather. It consistently ranks number one for the most days a year when temperatures rise above 89 °F or 99 °F. Miami challenges Phoenix for top spot on hottest year-round temperatures.
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- While the extreme heat is common during the summer months across the Southwest, the upcoming heat will be dangerous if not deadly. “The last time temperatures were close to the levels we are expecting in the Southwest was in 2005 and 1990,” Clark said. The highest temperature on record in the United States during the month of June is 129 F in Death Valley, California, on June 30, 2013. That record could be in jeopardy early this week, AccuWeather Meteorologist Ryan Adamson said.
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- Sunday's Heat Notables (June 19, 2016) 1  Tucson, Arizona, saw its hottest day in more than 20 years when it topped out at 115 degrees.  Phoenix set a daily record high temperature of 118 degrees Sunday, which also ranks as the fifth hottest day on record in the city.
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July Is the Warmest Time of the Year for Much of the U.S. After the Summer Solstice, Mainly. With the exception of a swath from the Big Bend of Texas to southeastern Arizona, the hottest time of year over much of the U.S. arrives days, or in some cases, weeks, after the summer solstice. This year's summer solstice is June 20 at 6:34 p.m. EDT.
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Weather extremes: 122? Memories of the hottest day in metro Phoenix Memories of the hottest day in metro Phoenix. On the day Tony Haffer started his job as the new meteorologist-in-charge at the National Weather Service in Phoenix, the thermometer at Sky Harbor International Airport reached 120 degrees. At the time, it was the hottest temperature ever recorded there.
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Death Valley hit hottest U.S. June temperature ever recorded Sunday: 129 On Sunday, the National Weather Service reported Death Valley had surged to 128 degrees. But, in an update this morning, it reports the mercury touched 129 degrees at its peak, a new monthly record and a tie for the hottest June temperature ever recorded in the U.S. (assuming it is validated).
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Two Middle East locations hit 129 degrees, hottest ever in Eastern Hemisphere, maybe the world And on Friday in Basra, Iraq, the mercury soared to 129.0 degrees (53.9 Celsius). If confirmed, these incredible measurements would represent the two hottest temperatures ever recorded in the Eastern Hemisphere, according to Weather Underground meteorologist Jeff Masters and weather historian Christopher Burt, who broke the news.
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- At the time, however, the highest heat index that researchers were capable of imagining was 136 degrees—which is an air temperature of 110 degrees and a dew point of 80. Iran beat the chart by a wide margin, with air temperatures 115 degrees and a dew point of 90. The heat index is not an official statistic tracked by governments, so international records are hard to confirm. In the U.S., however, the highest heat index Wiltgen has ever seen is 144 degrees in Sheldon, Iowa, on July 29, 1999.
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What's Happening & Why U.S. average temperature has increased by 1.3°F to 1.9°F since 1895, and most of this increase has occurred since 1970. The most recent decade was the Nation’s and the world’s hottest ever recorded, and 2012 was the hottest year on record in the continental United States.
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Death Valley: 100 Years As Earth's Hottest Spot The weather station at Furnace Creek in Death Valley where the hottest temperature ever recorded, a whopping 134 degrees Fahrenheit (56.7 degrees Celsius), was reached on July 10, 1913.Credit: U.S. National Park Service.his secured Death Valley as the hottest-known place on Earth, with the record-setting temperature marked on July 10, 1913. The park plans a 100th anniversary celebration on July 10 that will feature talks from scientists as well as an invitation for delegates to watch the usual temperature observation.
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What's the Highest Temperature Ever Recorded in the U.S.? Next story in Science. This summer has been a scorcher in many parts of the nation, but this sweat-inducing heat has nothing on the highest temperature ever recorded in the United States, the whopping 134 degrees Fahrenheit that sent the mercury soaring in Death Valley on July 10, 1913.
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2014 in Review: US Average Temperature Rises Above 20th Century Average Again December closed out the year as the second warmest on record with an average U.S. temperature in the lower 48 states of 37.1 F, which is 4.5 F above the 20th century average. December 2014 was the warmest since 1939, the data center said.anuary 10, 2015; 9:02 AM ET. Share |. Above-normal temperatures in the West, Northwest and Southwest United States helped contribute to 2014 being the 18th consecutive year that temperatures exceeded the 20th century average.
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2012 Has Been Warmest Year In U.S. To Date, Third Hottest Summer Driven by a warmer-than-average June, the hottest ever July, and a warmer-than-average August, the summer of 2012 will go down in the history books as the third-warmest summer on record for the lower 48 states, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced Monday.
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Not Even Close: 2012 Was Hottest Ever in U.S. Mr. Crouch pointed out that until last year, the coldest year in the historical record for the lower 48 states, 1917, was separated from the warmest year, 1998, by only 4.2 degrees Fahrenheit. That is why the 2012 record, and its one degree increase over 1998, strikes climatologists as so unusual.
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National Climate Report - June 2012 The January-June period was the warmest first half of any year on record for the contiguous United States. The national temperature of 52.9°F was 4.5°F above average. Most of the contiguous U.S. was record and near-record warm for the six-month period, except the Pacific Northwest.
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Texas sets record for hottest summer in US Next story in Weather. A dried-up area of Lake EV Spence outside of Robert Lee, Texas, exemplifies the state's record-setting heat. LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas just finished the hottest June through August on record for any state in the U.S., weather officials said Thursday. National Weather Service meteorologist Victor Murphy told The Associated Press that Texas' 86.8 degree Fahrenheit average beat out Oklahoma's 85.2 degrees in 1934. That Dust Bowl year is now third on the list for the three-month span, behind No. 2 Oklahoma's heat wave this June through August at 86.5 degrees.
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What's the Highest Temperature Ever Recorded in the U.S.? The greatest number of consecutive days with a maximum temperature of 100 F or above was 154 days in the summer of 2001, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The summer of 1996 had 40 days over 120 F, and 105 days over 110 F, making it the hottest summer on record.
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What's the Highest Temperature Ever Recorded in the U.S.? On July 10, 1913, the weather station measured a record high of 134 F (57 C), a temperature that has not been beat anywhere in the United States since. [Related: The Harshest Environments on Earth ] That temperature has, however, been beat elsewhere in the world.
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Record Hottest and Coldest Weather Temperatures Ever Recorded in Spokane, Washington The all-time record hottest weather temperature ever recorded in the state of Washington is 118 degrees, which occurred on August 5, 1961, at Ice Harbor Dam, which is located about 150 miles southwest of Spokane.
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- With warmer-than-average conditions in place since March, 2012 continues to be warmest year-to-date period on record. As July came to a close, a new record was set, breaking the one set just last month: the past 12-month period has been the warmest the nation has experienced since recordkeeping began in 1895. With the extreme heat, you can see much of the contiguous United States shaded in red.
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Hottest Temperatures Ever Recorded in All 50 States DEATH VALLEY, CALIFORNIA: The current hottest air temperature on record anywhere on Earth, 134 degrees Fahrenheit (56.7 Celsius), was measured in Death Valley, California, on July 10, 1913.