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Iranian City Soars To Record 129F Degrees: Near Hottest On Earth in Modern Measurements (washingtonpost.com)

Posted by msmash on from the face-the-heat dept.

A city in southwest Iran posted the country's hottest temperature ever recorded Thursday afternoon, and may have tied the world record for the most extreme high temperature. From a report on The Washington Post: Etienne Kapikian, a forecaster at French meteorological agency MeteoFrance, posted to Twitter that the city of Ahvaz soared to "53.7C" (128.7 degrees Fahrenheit). Kapikian said the temperature is a "new absolute national record of reliable Iranian heat" (alternative, non-paywalled source) and that it was the hottest temperature ever recorded in June over mainland Asia. Iran's previous hottest temperature was 127.4. Weather Underground's website indicates the temperature in Ahvaz climbed even higher, hitting 129.2 degrees at both 4:51 and 5 p.m. local time. If that 129.2 degrees reading is accurate, it would arguably tie the hottest temperature ever measured on Earth in modern times.

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  1. Past the boiling point of water? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who writes temperatures as "129 degrees"? This is a science and tech site, at very least, if you're going to use outmoded, outdated, antiquated, anachronistic, non-standard, and mostly unused units of measurement, indicate the unit.

    1. Re:Past the boiling point of water? by 91degrees · · Score: 5, Insightful

      That would be 326.9 Kelvin :)

      It does seem bizarre to talk about "modern measurements" and use outdated units for those measurements.

    2. Re:Past the boiling point of water? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Covered many times before, but I still think Fahrenheit is the best unit for weather temperature.

      0f to 100f is livable.

      0c to 100c is not livable.

    3. Re:Past the boiling point of water? by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 3, Insightful

      If you're intelligent you use metric like the rest of the damn planet.

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    4. Re:Past the boiling point of water? by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Covered many times before, but I still think Fahrenheit is the best unit for weather temperature.

      0f to 100f is livable.

      0c to 100c is not livable.

      Who cares if it is "livable"?

      It regularly gets 110F here in summer and people still live. In Canada it often gets below 0F and people live.

      The measurements 0F to 100F were based upon what at the time were perceived as the min and max temperatures the weather reached in Europe. That's not very scientific, even if it is meaningful.

      You can perceive the difference just about in 1C change. You can't perceive the difference in 1F change. A Centigrade is more meaningful to a human being as far as perception goes.

      Overall though... who really cares? If talking about the weather, either system works as long as you are familiar with it.

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    5. Re:Past the boiling point of water? by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 5, Insightful

      my glass of water has some salt in it and it's -2c...

      I wouldn't recommend drinking that.

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  2. Bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The hottest temperature recorded in Death Valley was 134 F on July 10, 1913, nearly 100 years ago, which is still modern times since people who were alive then are STILL alive. Good try, though.

  3. Re:Survivability by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    "How long can a human survive in -94.7C?"

    It happened in August 2010 when it hit -94.7C (-135.8F). Then on 31 July of this year, it came close again: -92.9C (-135.3F).

    Who gives a shit you people delight in seeing new high temps like some bonkers christian who cannot wait for the rapture.

    Temperature records will always be broken we have not kept records for nearly long enough to know what happens in a 100,000-year climate pattern.

  4. Re:Survivability by Jfetjunky · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That is not only not right, it is not even wrong.