As some popular songs say, people are always missing something. For example, in winter - summer and sun, and in summer - frost and white snow. But it is especially difficult for those who are forced to live and even work in places with truly extreme cold or unbearable heat. There are plenty of such territories on the planet Earth, and temperature records with plus and minus signs are updated on them with frightening constancy for meteorologists.
Heat, heat, fried sun
At the 2014 World Football Championship, the Iranian national team failed to compete for medals. But in the conditional tournament for the highest temperature, Iran overtook all competitors. More precisely, such a kind of champion is the Deshte-Lusht desert located in the east of this Middle Eastern country. On a multi-kilometer sandy territory, where even the most viable bacteria die from the heat and lack of moisture, the American space satellite recorded in 2005 the highest temperature of the earth's surface + 70.7 ° C.
However, if you examine the salt marshes and dunes of Deshte-Lut from the plane's window, then the record-breaking desert looks quite attractive. Thanks, above all, to the beautiful and high dunes.
Not Iran alone
By the way, Deshte Lusht is not the only area with terrible heat. Cooking meat without the help of a fire will probably work in some other places. Moreover, not all of them are located in especially heat-loving parts of the Asian and African continents. In particular, the Libyan city of Al-Aziziya was built not far from the resort Mediterranean Sea. On September 13, 1922, its inhabitants had to endure a record +57, 8 ° C. Ethiopian Dallol is also on the list of the hottest areas. The average temperature in it, +34, 4, is also considered the highest. And it is impossible to live in Dallol, completely covered with volcanic ash and salt and 116 meters below sea level, as in Desht-Lusht.
The American Death Valley is also unbearable for people and all living things. Dryness and heat (the average summer is + 47 ° C, and the maximum reached 56, 7), it kills everything and everyone. The list of truly hot countries of the planet is headed by Qatar, where the average winter temperature is +28. I wonder how the participants of the football World Cup 2022 will feel on the field? Especially those who come to Qatar from European countries.
"East" is a frozen business, Petruha
People do not appear, even weather-hardened polar explorers and meteorologists, and in the coldest point of the globe located in Antarctica. Therefore, to determine the average temperature at the Antarctic Pole of Inaccessibility, and it is equal to minus 57, 8 ° C, was entrusted exclusively to special frost-resistant devices and calculation groups located in the distance. The record of the lowest temperature set at the Vostok station (89.2 °), which belongs to Russia, was “broken” after the measurement carried out by the Americans on the Fuji ice dome with a height of 3779 m. It turned out to be exactly two degrees lower than the “eastern” one. Fuji is also located in Antarctica, on Queen Maud Land.
40 Degree Eureka
The name of the polar station, created near the South Pole at an altitude of 3500 km, was given by Lake Vostok, covered with four kilometers of ice. Also in Russia, in Yakutia, people live. A small settlement of hunters, fishermen and reindeer breeders set their world record - 71, 2 degrees - in 1926. It is curious that in translation from Yakut its name sounds like "Non-freezing water". It turned out that there is a hot spring nearby that does not want to freeze even in winter.
The prestige of North America as a very cold continent was supported by its highest peak, Mount McKinley (6194 m). Otherwise it is called Denali and it is believed that there are no lower high-altitude temperatures than here. The average winter in Denali, as, by the way, and at the Canadian research station called Eureka, is equal to 40 "minuses".
