| "It's a dry heat". In places that are humid, the mercury won't get as high, probably because it takes far more heat to heat the moisture in the air than it does to heat dry air. So I went with drier hot-climate countries. In Tampa, where I lived for quite a while, it had reportedly never gone over 100F. I did find one possible error in this quiz. I lived in Senegal, which is listed in it, as having had its top reading at Matam, 119.8F. One day I picked up the International Herald Tribune, which in its African edition had daily weather listings for African cities including mine, Kaolack. It showed it a) as having been 120 degrees there the previous day and b) that as having been the highest temperature listed in the world that day - higher than any either in the African cities map or in the standard world cities temperature map. Anyway, it was 120 degrees in Kaolack - higher than the 119.8F this quiz lists as Senegal's highest ever. |
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