The Hottest Place In The World Today 116 Degrees
Mable Bar, Australia, is the hottest place today, as temperatures have hit 116 degrees F. Mable Bar has fewer than 1,000 residents. It is located in the northwest of the state of Western Australia. It is also just south of the Indian Ocean, which means huge cyclones occasionally threaten it. Western Australia is about a third of the continent based on size at 975,000 square miles. That is about three times the size of Texas. Western Australia has only 2.5 million residents, most in the far southwest in the city of Perth, the country’s fourth largest by population.
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Mable Bar is nicknamed the “hottest town in Australia,” according to Perth Now. Temperatures are routinely above 100 degrees F from November through February. It usually gets a few inches of rain, almost all of which falls in January and February. The area was pounded by rain last April when Tropical Cyclone Ilsa made landfall with winds that reached over 140 MPH. Several areas on the coast north of Marble Bar were evacuated. The NASA Earth Observatory reported it as a Category 4 storm.
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As the heat grows across Australia, a BBC headline reads, “Heat: The silent killer stalking Australia’s summer.” The television network points out that heat kills more people in Australia than all other natural disasters combined. And heat is at record levels across the country, and it has been at these levels for over a week.
The town will have hotter days in the future based on Marble Bar’s long history of heat and the general effects of global warming on northwestern Australia.
