What was the hottest temperature ever recordes on earth?

Answer 1

If you mean the hottest air temperature recorded under standard conditions in a thermometer screen then it was 57.7°C at al'Aziziyah Libya on 13 September 1922. Death Valley, California, is not far behind with 56.7°C.

Answer 2

Is this a general science or physics question, because it could be answered several ways.

1) What is the highest recorded temperature "due to the earths weather"

Or

2) is it lightening strikes occuring in nature which have very large momentary temperatures that have been recorded, have not checked but I believe as hot as the atomic bomb

OR

is the highest temperature created by man?

Your answer maybe determined by the course you are taking.


Myself, I would go with the 3rd option, created by man, and you have been given answers by others

Answer 3

The last I heard was that the record was 136.4 degrees Farenheit, in Addis Abba (I think) in one of the middle eastern desert countries.

If you are talking about temperature caused by any source, including man, I would imagine that near the center of a nuclear detonation would be the highest, and probably in the millions of degrees.

Answer 4

Scientists have produced superheated gas exceeding temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin, or 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit.

http://www.livescience.com/technology/060308_sandia_z.html

Answer 5

1,000,000 degrees C. It was the last thing recorded by the thermometer they stuck inside the Trinity bomb.

Answer 6

134 deg F
Death Valley, USA