HEAT SEEKER PINPOINTING THE MOST SIZZLING SPOT ON EARTH

摘要

The hottest day in history was not September 13, 1922, when it almost certainly did not reach 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit in El Azizia, Libya. But it took the World Meteorological Organization a year to prove that onetime record didn't happen. The real winner? Death Valley, on July 10,1913, at a broiling 134 degrees. Unearthing the truth took a crack international team of 13-climatologists, meteorologists, and a weather historian-led by Randall Cerveny (above), a clima-tologist at Arizona State University and the WMO's rapporteur of weather and climate extremes.