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Fact Check: 63°C claim from Kuwait — is it really a world record? | Explained News, The Indian Express

Fact Check: 63°C claim from Kuwait — is it really a world record? | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Express News Service |Updated: June 14, 2019 10:18:07 am



Fact Check: 63°C claim from Kuwait — is it really a world record?

For India, the record is 51°C, witnessed in Phalodi, Rajasthan, on May 19, 2016. This is mentioned in various documents of the India Meteorological Department as well as the WMO.



Fact check: 63°C claim from Kuwait: is it really a world record?
Afternoon nap in Prayagraj, UP, on Thursday. (AP Photo)


Last Saturday, Kuwait reportedly recorded the highest temperature on Earth at 63°C under sunlight (and 52.2°C in the shadows). The claim was reported Thursday in Gulf News, which quoted the Al Qabas newspaper, and added that Al Majmaah in Saudi Arabia recorded 55°C. Unless the Kuwait temperature is verified, however, the world record stands at 56.7°C, recorded at Death Valley in Furnace Creek Ranch, California, on July 10, 1913.

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