Step Aside Death Valley, The Hottest Surface Temperature On Earth Is Actually Here
If you ask people where the hottest position on Earth is , most will reply “ Death Valley " . However , that ’s not necessarily true . Furnace Creek in California ’s Death Valley holds the prescribed record for the highest air temperature on the planet , clocking a sear 56.7 ° degree centigrade ( 134.1 ° F ) on July 10 , 1913 . While somedispute the validityof the temperature recording ( and even if they do , the next record - circuit breaker is still Furnace Creek just nine years originally ) , that ’s the official hottest temperature concord to theWorld Meteorological Organization(WMO ) ....