The Hottest Place In The World Today 113 Degrees
It’s 113 degrees F in the Pilbara mining town of Paraburdoo. It is in the Pilbara and Gascoyne parts of Western Australia. It has a population of less than 2,000. It is inland from the Indian Ocean on its north.
Climate Cost? $12.5 Trillion
Temperatures in this part of Australia have been 100 degrees F plus for weeks. According to Reuters, The Bureau of Meteorology issued an “extreme heat-wave warning” a few days ago.
Temperatures of 120 degrees F have hit the region recently. The Australian record of 124 degrees F, recorded at Onslow, a coastal town in the Pilbara
The only good news about the temperature wave is that it is in a part of the nation with very few people. Western Australia has a population of 2.7 million people spread over 975,000 square miles. Over these, over 2 million live in Perth. No other city has a population even close to 100,000.
For those few people living in Western Australia’s hottest regions, temperatures have reached a level where they can seriously damage the health of humans and even be deadly. According to the BBC, the heat in Australia is called the “silent killer.” The news service reports, “ …it’s deadlier than all other natural disasters combined yet leaves behind no visual clues as to the scale of its devastation.”
The trend for high temperatures in Paraburdoo is that they will only get higher.
