Friday, 4 December 2015

Environment

Global Temperature Extremes

The week's hottest temperature was 113.0 degrees Fahrenheit (45.0 degrees Celsius) at Curtin Air Force Base in Western Australia.

The week's coldest temperature was minus 49.9 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 45.5 degrees Celsius) at Russia's Siberian outpost of Oimyakon.

Temperatures were tabulated from the more than 10,000 worldwide synoptic weather stations. The United Nations World Meteorological Organization sets the standards for weather observations, and provides a global telecommunications circuit for data distribution.

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