Stuart Blackman takes a look at the hottest places on earth <\/p>
The official record for the hottest place in the world, verified by the World Meteorological Organization, has stood since 1913, when a thermometer placed at a standard 1.5m off the ground in Furnace Creek in California\u2019s Death Valley, recorded an air temperature of 56.7\u00b0C. <\/p>
Despite its hostile conditions this area is home to an array of wildlife including roadrunners, lizards like the chuckwalla, desert pupfish\u00a0and kangaroo rat – aptly named seeing it can jump nine feet.<\/p>
The ground can get hotter than the air, though. In 2005, a satellite measured a soil-surface temperature of 70.7\u00b0C in Iran\u2019s Lut Desert, 2,278,015 ha<\/strong> of arid landscape in the country’s southeast.<\/p> But although its landscape looks inhospitable life does survive there. The Lut Plain is home to R\u00fcppell\u2019s fox, sand cat, arrow snake, Golden and Black Scorpion to name just a few.<\/p> \u00a0The top temperature though goes to the tarred rooftops in New York, which have been recorded reaching a scorching 82\u00b0C. Probably not much wildlife living ton the rooftops though… Main image: Furnace Creek in California\u2019s Death Valley \u00a9 Getty Images<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n Stuart Blackman takes a look at the hottest places on earth <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":37330,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/04\/whats-the-hottest-place-on-earth.jpg",2121,1414,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/04\/whats-the-hottest-place-on-earth-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/04\/whats-the-hottest-place-on-earth-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/04\/whats-the-hottest-place-on-earth-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/04\/whats-the-hottest-place-on-earth-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/04\/whats-the-hottest-place-on-earth-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/04\/whats-the-hottest-place-on-earth-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Stuart Blackman takes a look at the hottest places on earth","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/37329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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