Amazing records of the weather in human history

Have you ever wondered where the lowest temperature, the highest temperature, the highest rainfall, the longest dry time, the largest desert, . on earth, and how much? Join the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to review the world's weather and climate records over the past 100 years.

Lowest temperature

According to WMO, the lowest temperature recorded was -89.2 degrees Celsius on July 21, 1983 in Vostok, Antarctica . But not long after that year, the lowest recorded temperature was -128.5 degrees Celsius.

Vostok, Antarctica is located at an altitude of 3420 meters, year-round covered with snow and ice and almost never gets sunshine.

Maximum temperature

According to WMO, the hottest time was in the summer of 1913 in Death Valley in California. The measured temperature was 56.7 degrees Celsius and was included in the world record book.

Maximum rainfall in 1 minute

On July 4, 1956, in the Unionville, Maryland area , within a minute, the amount of water purchased increased 1.22 inches (equivalent to 31.2 mm).

Meanwhile, in Hong Kong if the rainfall exceeds 2, 75 inches (70 mm) within 1 hour, it will be warned that the rain is very serious. With this comparison we can see how horrible it is.

Maximum rainfall in 24 hours

Maryland rainfall is terrible but it is the highest rainfall in a minute and the highest rainfall in a day occurs in Cyclone Denise, Foc-Foc, La Réunion , an island in southern India. Ocean. From January 7 to 8, 1966, a 24-hour rain caused the island to be submerged more than 1km deep, rainwater rose to 1825 meters (71.8 inches).

Heaviest hail

On April 14, 1986, a major storm in Gopalganj, Bangladesh carried hail of stones weighing up to 1.02kg, killing 92 people.

The longest drought time

Arica, Chile suffered the longest drought in history. During 14 years from October 1903 to January 1918 - a total of 173 months, there was no rain drop.

The cold water is the highest eruption

Cold water Andernach is located in Andernach, Germany, with a depth of more than 350m often spraying water high from 30m to 60m. This is an artificial water vessel, drilled in 1903 and is the highest cold water injection circuit in the world 64m.

The coldest way

The Kolyma (M56) highway in Russia is also known as the "road of bones" built by inmates at the Sewostlag labor camp in extreme weather. The temperature here once dropped to -67.7 degrees Celsius and is the coldest road in the world.

The largest desert

Antarctica covers an area of ​​14 million square kilometers and 50 mm of rainfall each year is the largest desert in the world.

The world's hottest desert

With an area of ​​9.1 million square kilometers, the Sahara desert , according to the Guinness Book of Records, is only the largest hot desert in the world.

The place with the lowest temperature is inhabited

It is Oymyakon Siberia village, in Russia the coldest place where people live. The temperature here was once reduced to -68 degrees Celsius in 1933, equivalent to the temperature in Antarctica.