The Hottest Places In The World Today 116 Degrees
It’s 116 degrees F in Paraburdoo Aero, Australia. All 15 places with the highest temperatures today worldwide are in Western Australia. Paraburdoo Aero serves the town that carries its name. The town is south of the country’s northern coast, which sits on the Indian Ocean. The mining town has a population of just over 1,000 people.
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Paraburdoo has been among the hottest places in the world for years—the daily median high runs above 100 degrees F from November through February. The record high is just above 118 degrees F.
Paraburdoo gets just above 12 inches of rain annually, virtually all of which falls in January and February. It gets virtually no rain at all from April through October.
Recently, Western Australia has been unusually hot recently. According to The Guardian. On February 16, it reported, “In the state of Western Australia, yet more temperature records were broken this week, as Perth exceeded its record for the most consecutive February days above 40C (104F). Temperatures peaked at 41.7C on Thursday, taking the total to five days.” The heat is expected to rise again near the end of the month.
Temperatures so high are dangerous, particularly for those who are outdoors for more than a few minutes. According to the CDC, extreme heat can “cause confusion, altered mental status, slurred speech, loss of consciousness (coma), hot, dry skin or profuse sweating, seizures, very high body temperature, and fatal if treatment delayed.”
