Friday 22 January 2016

Environment

Global Temperature Extremes

The week's hottest temperature was 110.8 degrees Fahrenheit (43.8 degrees Celsius) at Vredendal, South Africa.

The week's coldest temperature was minus 59.8 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 50.0 degrees Celsius) at Russia's Siberian community of Vitim.

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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