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Kuwait records world’s highest temperature
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Again, not when you combine each temperature with the respective amount of light received during each season.
Having lived in both extremes, both are unpleasant, but darkness and extreme cold for three months every year takes a toll.
When it's hot, it's at least nice and sunny. Although anything over 120 sounds terrifying.
For some reason, (edit) DRY heat is more physically tolerable, as long as you're not facing direct exposure for hours on end, without water.
Humidity is awful, no matter how hot it is.
With extreme cold, you're just frozen, in pain, and shivering.
Again, extreme cold being -10f and below.
105 f where I'm at today, by the way.
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I don't know what's nice about it. Hot weather is just exhausting. I'm physically unable to do anything. I dread the summer every year.
If you work outside for a living, I think there is a good argument to be made for colder weather being more comfortable, so long as you're moving around.
If you live in a place where air conditioning is easy to come by, heat is easier and cheaper to escape. Again, to a certain degree.
I tend to get more lethargic in extreme cold, because of both the temp and darkness.
In extreme heat, I still don't want to move around as much, but there's plenty of light to keep up my mood.
I live in Germany. We have no air conditioning. At all. Pray for me.
Ok, yeah. That's not good.
Hope for the best this year - I know the Netherlands had a drought last year, so it'd be good to get a reprieve, I'm sure.
Hope for the best this year - I know the Netherlands had a drought last year, so it'd be good to get a reprieve, I'm sure.
Okay.. It took me a minute to appreciate that what they had was the highest recorded temperature in the world - this week.
There are places far warmer across Africa and the Middle East, if one chooses to ignore Death Valley in the US.
For a clearer view on the hottest places on the planet - LINK
There are places far warmer across Africa and the Middle East, if one chooses to ignore Death Valley in the US.
For a clearer view on the hottest places on the planet - LINK
That's going to be a hard disagree from me. I can handle 115 in the shade. -30 though I don't know if I could actually wear enough clothes to stay warm unless they're heated.
Ehh, Kuwait is hotter than a lot of these places especially passed #4. I'm not sure why it wasn't included. The average summer temps in Kuwait are 43-48C with it hitting 50 every now and then, and 54C in 2016 is the highest temperature recorded there.
I thought the world record was 56c in Death Valley, Ca.
Edit: ah. I see this was covered already
Edit: ah. I see this was covered already
The actual average summer daily high in Kuwait is 41C.
The same average in Death Valley is 45.2C.
Death Valley also has the records for highest recorded ground temperature and highest average temperature over the course of a day.
I don't disagree.. I was there in 2016 when I saw a reported temperature of 53 degrees first hand. The catch was that this was the 'reported' temperature.. On every car dashboard (might have been about 6 through the day) I rode in, the outside temperature was recorded at 57!
I was told that the meteorological department deliberately downplays forecasts because of a law that mandated shorter labour hours any time the temperature was recorded at 55 or above. No idea if that is true, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was.
With global warming there's a reason why I'm looking to move North into Scotland
And I complain as soon as it hits 25!
Screw the heat
And I complain as soon as it hits 25!
Screw the heat
Maybe one of the African national team I always cheer for has a chance against Germany at 50C.
Did See the Performance of our Team Last world Cup? Everybody has a chance.
Uhhh what?
For real, that's the dumbest thing I've read all week, including what I saw on reddit. Wait until he hears about the rankine scale, it was over 580!
Where did you get 41c? Over here it says 47c, which jives with what it was like when I lived there. 41c is spring weather (which was my favourite season :P). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwait_City#Climate
Chances are the temperature measured by the cars was the temperature in the sun. Temperatures are recorded in the shade because that's a more accurate measurement of the air temperature. Once you add sunlight you are also adding in heat caused by the sun's rays into the measurement as well as the air temperature.
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The first figures that come up in Google are from NOAA, and they are MUCH lower. Even going by what you posted 41 is hot for spring.
In April I was in Puerto Rico for the first time, and even though the weather was perfect, I couldn't believe how high in the sky the sun was and how intense its rays felt. Totally a different experience for a northerner.
I think it was referenced in my link from an earlier post.. Somewhere in Iran, uninhabited though.
This would be like me saying you're crazy for liking winter because you would die in cold enough weather.
How lethal is 51? I've never experience anything remotely that high.
The same as other refugees. Create a problem, ignore the problem, then complain when the refugees show up. That depressingly is the current plan.
The same as other refugees. Create a problem, ignore the problem, then complain when the refugees show up. That depressingly is the current plan.
I mean yeah, but that's not why people like summer or winter is my point.
