The Hottest Place In The World Today 121 Degrees
The weather across much of Australia is unsettled in an unprecedented way. According to Reuters, the severe thunderstorms in the continent’s east run on a front that stretches over 600 miles. One area received 4 inches of rain in two hours. In the north and west, temperatures will reach extremes and record temperatures. None will be higher than in the former mining town, Mable Bar, where the temperature has hit 121 degrees F.
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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.
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 in 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.
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.
