It's official: California's famed Death Valley now holds the world record for the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth.
One of weather's most iconic and hallowed statistics, the Earth's all-time warmest temperature -- supposedly set 90 years ago today at a remote spot in the Libyan desert -- has been deemed invalid: New analysis of past weather data found that record of 136 degrees to be incorrect.
The new record, which was formerly No. 2 on the all-time list: the beastly 134-degree reading measured on July 10, 1913, in Death Valley, Calif.
"This is as symbolic a mark for meteorologists as Mount Everest is for geographers," said Christopher Burt, a weather historian with the Weather Underground, a private meteorology company.
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