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South Africa (then the Union of South Africa) 50.0 °C (122.0 °F) Dunbrody, Eastern Cape: 3 November 1918 Sudan: 49.7 °C (121.5 °F) Dongola: 25 June 2010 Tunisia: 50.3 °C (122.5 °F) Kairouan: 11 August 2021 Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (then the Spanish Sahara) 50.7 °C (123.3 °F) Semara: 13 July 1961
The hottest average temperature on Earth is at Dallol, Ethiopia, which averages a temperature of 33.9 °C (93.0 °F) throughout the year. The hottest temperature recorded within Africa, which was also the world record, was 57.8 °C (136.0 °F) at 'Aziziya, Libya, on 13 September 1922. This was later proven to be false, being derived from an ...
This is a list of cities by average temperature (monthly and yearly). The temperatures listed are averages of the daily highs and lows. Thus, the actual daytime temperature in a given month may be considerably higher than the temperature listed here, depending on how large the difference between daily highs and lows is.
Africa may have just seen its hottest day ever recorded. Veuer. July 6, 2018 at 11:56 AM. The North African town of Ouargla, Algeria, which is located in the Sahara Desert, just experienced ...
The Sahara Desert is one of the driest and hottest regions of the world, with a mean temperature sometimes over 30 °C (86 °F) and the average high temperatures in summer are over 40 °C (104 °F) for months at a time, and can even soar to 47 °C (117 °F). In desert rocky mountains such as the Tibesti in Libya or the Hoggar in Algeria ...
July 1743 heatwave in China - Beijing reached 44.4 °C (111.9 °F) on July 25, higher than any modern records. 11,400 people reportedly died. [1] July 1757 heatwave – Europe, hottest summer in Europe since 1540 and until 2003. [2] [3] [4] 1896 Eastern North America heat wave – killed 1,500 people in August 1896.
e. The Harmattan is a season in West Africa that occurs between the end of November and the middle of March. It is characterized by the dry and dusty northeasterly trade wind, of the same name, which blows from the Sahara over West Africa into the Gulf of Guinea. [1] The name is related to the word haramata in the Twi language. [2]
The annual average rainfall is 713 millimetres (28.1 in), which is mostly concentrated in the summer months. Infrequent showers occur through the course of the winter months. The Western Cape province has a Mediterranean climate with warm to hot, dry, sunny summer weather and mild, rainy conditions in winter. Climate change