Feeling hot hot hot: the 10 hottest places on earth
Hi sweaty mustache. Hi chafing thighs. Hi clammy nights. Sigh, groan, puff. Are we really complaining about the weather? What a bunch of crazies we are. 31 degrees is nothing. And certainly not when you compare it to the 10 hottest places on earth. (Small disclaimer: it’s not always that warm there, but these are the hottest temperatures ever recorded.
10. Dallol – Ethiopia – 47 degrees
Well, it’s no wonder it has become a ghost town with an ‘average’ temperature around 35 degrees and peaks around 47. In Dallol, it never really cools down.
9. Tirat Zvi – Israel – 54 degrees
You wake up in the morning and find that your body has half melted away. At 54 degrees, the highest temperature ever recorded in Asia.
8. Timbuktu – Mali – 54.5 degrees
From here to… Timbuktu, right? As a child, I always thought this was a fantasy place, but no, Timbuktu exists. The city is located on the edge of the Sahara desert and is surrounded by sand dunes. Especially in summer, it is bloody, bloody hot.
7. Kebili – Tunisia – 55 degrees
Your grandma teaches you in the deserts of Kebili how to deal with the heat, she inherited the weather from her mother and you will teach it to your children later. The 18,000 residents of this town have to defend themselves against temperatures that can sometimes rise to 55 degrees and have found all sorts of ways to cope.
6. Rub al-Khali – Saudi Arabia – 56 degrees
Rain? Mwah, it’s almost a natural phenomenon here. They don’t really know it. And gulp, the
temperatures can rise above 56 degrees Celsius…
5. El Azizia – Libya – 58 degrees
I mean: come on, you must be really unlucky to end up here in the summer in any way. How do people handle this?
4. Death Valley – America – 56.5 degrees
The name says it all, right? This is the lowest, driest, and hottest region of California. Gulp.
3. Flaming Mountains – China – 66.7 degrees
Yeah sorry, from this point on I can’t really imagine it anymore but well, it seems to be possible. Flaming hot in the Flaming Mountains, good lordie.
2. Badlands – Australia – 69.3 degrees
If you’re almost hitting 70 degrees, you should be able to fry an egg on your forehead, right? Seems to me. In 2002, a year of great drought partly due to El Niño, a record temperature of 69.3 degrees was recorded. You understand that hardly anyone lives in this area.
1. Dasht-e Lut – Iran – 70.7 degrees
Okay, there are no weather stations here so it’s a bit of guesswork, but during a seven-year study, a NASA satellite measured temperatures. The record was set in 2005, with a sweaty mustache weather of no less than 70.7 degrees. Literally killing, this.
So, warm today? What are we talking about? Barbecue them!
