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Documented records
Records9
Earliest1983
Latest2022
Real, well-documented extremes — kept apart from the modelled series the field is built from.
- Lytton, British Columbia29 June 202149.6 °C
- Coningsby, Lincolnshire19 July 202240.3 °C
- Floridia, Sicily11 August 202148.8 °C
- Mitribah21 July 201653.9 °C
- Esperanza Base, Antarctic Peninsula6 February 202018.3 °C
- Onslow, Western Australia13 January 202250.7 °C
- Vostok Station21 July 1983−89.2 °C
- Arctic Ocean (basin-wide)September 20123.39 million km²
- Jacobabad, Sindh1987 and 2005 (brief exceedances)35 °C wet-bulb
How to read a record
A record is a fact about a place's history: the highest (or lowest) value ever reliably measured there. It is not a forecast and says nothing on its own about how likely a repeat is. For that you need the distribution around it — see climate normals and return periods.