The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was logged in Death Valley, but many meteorologists no longer believe it — a 2016 review called the 134-degree reading essentially impossible, yet it remains the official record because nobody has withdrawn it

There is a number sitting at the top of every list of weather extremes, and the people who have looked at it most carefully are the ones least willing to defend it. The reading is 134 degrees Fahrenheit, about 56.7 Celsius, taken in Death Valley on July 10, 1913. Officially, it is the hottest near-surface [...] The post The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was logged in Death Valley, but many meteorologists no longer believe it — a 2016 review called the 134-degree reading essentially