Hot enough to fry an egg!Īs big as the earth is, over two thirds of its surface is covered in water from the oceans. The single highest land surface temperature (LST) recorded in any year, in any region, occurred there in 2005, when MODIS recorded a temperature of 70.7☌ (159.3☏) - more than 12☌ (22☏) warmer than the official air temperature record from Libya. Five of the seven years of temperature data (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2009) have shown the hottest surface temperatures there. NASA has been capturing earth surface temperature data using the Landsat 7 satellite and the stunning results are now in.the hottest surface temperature ever recorded keeps happening in the same area of the Lut Desert in Iran. Most humans don't 'hang out' where some of the hottest tempertatures on earth are regularly experienced so there aren't a lot of meterological stations in these places to reliably record extreme temperatures. Of course, it's important that the temperature sensor is not exposed to direct sunlight - the shelter is louvered to permit air flow across the sensor.
It is important to note that when atmospheric temperatures are recorded it is not the surface temperature, where it can sometimes reach 150° F/ 66° C, but rather the air temperature at about 5 feet (1.6 m) above the surface in an enclosed shelter. In all likelihood, this record temperature has been exceeded since then in many places on earth, but we have no official records of the temperatures. In fact, there's a good chance on the day the record-breaking air temperature of 136° F/57.8☌ was recorded by a meteorological station in El Azizia in 1922, there were other places hundreds of miles away that were even hotter. There are many places on earth that are plenty hot - record-breaking hot.
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