As some popular songs say, people always miss 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 planet Earth, and temperature records with plus and minus signs are updated on them with constancy of meteorologists.
"Heat, heat, fried sun"
At the 2014 World Football Championship, the Iranian team was unable to argue for medals. But in a conditional tournament in the highest temperature, Iran overtook all competitors. More precisely, such a kind of champion is the Deshte-Lust desert located in the east of this Middle Eastern country. In a multi-kilometer sandy area, where even the most viable bacteria die from hell 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 look at the Deshte-Loot salt flats and dunes from the airplane window, the record-breaking desert looks pretty attractive. Thanks, above all, to the beautiful and high dunes.
Not a single Iran
By the way, Deshte-Lust is not the only territory with terrible heat. Cooking meat without the help of a fire will certainly work in some other places. Moreover, not all of them are located in particularly heat-loving parts of the Asian and African continents. In particular, near the resort of the Mediterranean Sea, the Libyan city of Al-Aziziya was built. On September 13, 1922, its inhabitants had to endure a record + 57.8 ° C. The Ethiopian Dallol is also on the list of the hottest places. The average temperature in it, +34.4, is also considered the highest. And you can’t live in Dallol, completely covered with volcanic ash and salt and below sea level at 116 meters, like in Desht Lush.
Unbearable for people and all living things is the American Death Valley. Dry and hot (the average summer is + 47 ° C, and the maximum reached 56.7), it kills everything and everyone. The list of really 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" - 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 equals minus 57.8 ° С, is entrusted exclusively to special frost-resistant devices and to the calculation groups located far away. The record of the lowest low temperature, set at the Vostok station (89.2 °), which belongs to Russia, was “broken” after a measurement by the Americans on the ice dome of Fuji, 3, 779 m high. It turned out to be exactly two degrees lower than the eastern one. Fuji is also located in Antarctica, on Queen Maud Land.
