Weather group says California's Death Valley set all-time heat record, is planet's hot spot

DEATH VALLEY, Calif. - An international team of weather experts has named California's Death Valley the world's hottest place.

The World Meteorological Organization says the title comes after it investigated a long-held record from El Azizia, Libya, and found that an inexperienced weather observer recorded the temperature incorrectly.

The Libyan record was logged as 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit (58 Celsius) on Sept. 13, 1922 — 90 years ago Thursday. The new official highest recorded surface temperature is 136 degrees (57.8 Celsius) on July 10, 1913, in Death Valley.

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