Highest temperature recorded on Earth

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The highest temperature recorded on Earth has been measured in three major ways: air, ground, and via satellite observation. Air measurements are used as the standard measurement because of persistent issues with unreliable ground and satellite readings. Air measurements are considered by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and Guinness World Records among others as the standard to be used for determining the official record. The current official highest registered air temperature on Earth is 134.1 °F (56.7 °C), recorded on 10 July 1913 at 14:00 local time, at Furnace Creek Ranch, in Death Valley, Eastern California in the United States. For about 90 years, a temperature measured in Libya in 1922 held the world record, until it was decertified in 2012 on the basis of a variety of evidences that it was inaccurate. This finding has since raised questions about the legitimacy of the 1913 record measured in Death Valley, with several meteorological experts asserting that there were...

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