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World Record 122.four°F Temperature Scorches Pakistani City

The world’s hottest place is the Pakistani city of Nawabshah in central Sindh province, which roasted under temperatures reaching 50.2°C (122.4°F) — the hottest April temperature ever recorded on Earth.

Arthur J. Villasanta – Fourth Estate Contributor

Islamabad, Pakistan (4E) – The world’s hottest place is the Pakistani metropolis of Nawabshah in central Sindh province, which roasted underneath temperatures reaching 50.2°C (122.four°F) — the most popular April temperature ever recorded on Earth.

The document set on April 30 was reported by French meteorologist Etienne Kapikian, who famous this extraordinary warmth broke all prior data for each Pakistan and the Asian continent. The World Meteorological Organization mentioned it has no cause to doubt this document for ferocious warmth as does Christopher Burt, a climate extremes skilled, who mentioned it is possible the most popular document ever.

Nawabshah has recurrently approached temperatures nearly this excessive since mid-April. Accuweather information reveals Nawabshah has exceeded a 113°F day-after-day since April 23. Because of the lethal warmth, “dozens” of heatstroke victims required remedy at numerous hospitals within the state.

Nawabshah’s April document of 122.four°F is barely hotter than the most popular Phoenix, Arizona, has ever been, a 122°F document set in the summertime of 1990. That’s so sizzling it renders planes unable to fly.

Meteorologists blame the area’s excessive temperatures on a high-pressure system referred to as a “heat dome” masking the Indian Ocean. A warmth dome happens when sizzling air is trapped beneath a high-pressure system that acts as a lid, and forces the recent air again down towards the Earth’s floor, the place it turns into even hotter.

Pakistan has an unenviable historical past of historic warmth. In June 2015, a 5 day warmth wave in Karachi killed greater than 1,200 folks whereas 40,000 different folks suffered from heatstroke and warmth exhaustion within the catastrophic occasion.

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