The Hottest Place In The World Today 113 Degrees
The hottest part of the world has been in north central Australia for several days. In Marble Bar, Australia, it is 117 degrees F, according to El Dorado Weather. World Weather Online shows it is nearly as hot from the area inland from Perth to the northeastern part of the continent.
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Marble Bar, inland only a few miles from the Indian Ocean, has been one of the hottest places in Australia since people began keeping records. It only has a few hundred residents, which ballooned to over 5,000 during the gold rush of the early 1890s.
Marble Bar holds the Australian record for the most consecutive days of 100 degrees F. This period lasted 160 days, from October 31, 1923, to April 7, 1924. That string is like the one in Phoenix last year, but Phoenix only posted its record for 55 days.
Marble Bar gets almost no rain–14 inches a year, with a large part of this in January, February, and March. This is a period when tropical cyclones sometimes hit the northern shore of Australia. From July through October, Marble Bar gets almost no rain at all.
Of the 15 hottest places in the world today, 12 are in Australia, in areas relatively close to Marble Bar.
According to the NASA Earth Observatory, the heat has driven the risk of fires. “The hot, dry conditions heightened the risk of bushfires in Western Australia, Northern Territory, and New South Wales. Near Narrabri, New South Wales (360 kilometers northwest of Sydney), a fire broke out in Pilliga Forest and quickly spread to cover 121,000 hectares (300,000 acres) by December 18.”
