The day of June 26 was a scorcher in the town of Quriyat, Oman. Temperatures in the town, which is weathering a miserable heat wave, peaked at 121.6 degrees Fahrenheit (49.8 degrees Celsius) during the day, according to Weather Underground. That's just shy of the Omani record-high temperature of 123.4 degrees F (50.8 degrees C), set on May 30, 2017. But anyone in Quriyat hoping for an evening respite from the extreme heat would have been disappointed: Temperatures fell to a low of just 108.7 degrees F (42.6 degrees C). That's a world record: the highest "low" temperature ever recorded in history.

Oman, a hot and dry country located on the southeastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula (south of Saudi Arabia and east of Yemen) is a frequent site for ultrahot weather, including the last record-high low; Weather Underground reports that record, 107.4 degrees F (41.9 degrees C), was set at Khasab Airport on June 27, 2011.

The new record, Weather Underground reported, is the result of a "ridge" of high-pressure air in the upper atmosphere over the Arabian Peninsula, which trapped humid air from the Indian Ocean in the region, preventing heat from escaping at night.

The hottest temperature ever recorded on the Earth's surface was 134 degrees F (56.7 degrees C), in Furnace Creek Ranch in Death Valley, California, on July 10, 1913, according to the World Meteorological Association.

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That's nothing. They should have been measuring in my house last summer when the AC was broken.

They should vacation in London....

It's Oman, so it's a dry heat.



One useful for slow cookin' some ribs.

Hotter than a goat's ass in a pepper patch.

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Originally posted by rusbro:
Hotter than a goat's ass in a pepper patch.

Or a snake's ass in a wagon rut.

Or a half-fucked fox in a forest fire.

So hot, you can do some crotch pot cookin'

GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!!!!!

That right there is all the evidence you need.

BTW, I'd swear that temps on Ft. Irwin in August of '89 were a hell of a lot hotter than Oman. Good God it was stifling out there. Heating up MREs on a rock, hot.

Don't send them food, send them LUGGAGE!!!!

It's so hot the ovens there are overheating.

I worked a couple seasons building the lower Hells Canyon Dam circa 1967. While none were 'resident', there were multiseason crews at the labor camp where I bunked was on 'Big Bar', a sloping gravel bank in a large curve in the river. The canyon wall was so steep, that by about 4:30 the sun would move below that section of directly lighting the banks/river/parbroiled labor crew.

There was an old mummified apple orchard there, with tree long dead. Still, some of the trailers were laid out in a rough pattern under some of those dehydrated sticks.

More than once I saw a thermometer hanging on a branch, in the shade of a trailer, reading above 125*....once memorable day I saw 132*. Somehow these were never regarded as 'real' measurements.

Unsure how the day crew managed the heat of the day, I was on graveyard shift. Regardless of the radiation activity of the day, by 0300 until about 0900 it could be very pleasant.

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Originally posted by signewt:
Regardless of the radiation activity of the day, by 0300 until about 0900 it could be very pleasant.

I've always found that too. Nights in the desert are something to be appreciated.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!!!!!

That right there is all the evidence you need.

Didn't I just read recently that a new lowest temperature ever recorded on earth was measured in Antarctica a few days ago?

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Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
Or a half-fucked fox in a forest fire.

Ummm, Shugart...Which half? It could be important.

Hotter than hell here too, BTW. Been that way since the end of winter, it was a two day switch over. ;-)

Felt 119 in Baghdad.

Like breathing in a dry sauna.

Britain would burst into flames

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