As heat waves continue throughout the United States and Europe, Sicily tape-recorded a possibly record-breaking temperature level of 119.84 Fahrenheit on Wednesday.
If confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization, it would be the most popular day on record for Europe. Currently, the continent’s most popular confirmed temperature level stands at 118.4 degrees Fahrenheit and was tape-recorded in Greece on July 10, 1977.
Elsewhere in Europe, fires have actually ravaged parts of Greece, impacting Turkey also. In the United States, almost 200 million individuals are under some type of heat advisory, with numerous cities seeing unusually heats this summertime. This week, the United Nations launched an environment report that revealed environment modification speeding up.
This graphic programs the greatest documented temperature levels for each continent. While some records are current, others go back more than a century.
These are the temperature level records per continent:
Europe: 118.4° F in Greece on July 10, 1977.
- A temperature level of practically 120 degrees F was reported in Sicily on Wednesday; nevertheless, it will not be the record unless the WMO confirms it.
North America: 134° F in Furnace Creek (Death Valley), California, on July 10, 1913.
- Note: This record has actually been challenged however, and another heat was just recently tape-recorded as 130° F on July 9, 2021, in Death Valley that’s waiting for confirmation
South America: 120° F in Rivadavia, Argentina, on Dec. 11, 1905.
Africa: 131° F in Kebili, Tunisia, on July 7, 1931.
Asia: 129.0° F ± 0.2° in Mitribah, Kuwait, on July 21, 2016.
Antarctica: 64.9° F on Feb. 6, 2020.
Australia: 123° F in Oodnadatta on Jan. 2, 1960.
