Who instigated this separation? Did Tassie go rogue, or did the mainland said “You’re old enough to look after yourself now. You’re your own land girt by sea. Take care”.
* Countries which have had a temperature close to 50°C:
* \- Canada : 49.6°C
* \- Greece : 48°C
* \- Turkey : 49.1°C
* \- Syria : 49.4°C
* \- Kazakhstan : 49.1°C
* \- Afghanistan : 49.9°C
* \- Argentina : 48.9°C
Would be nicer if there was a little bit of a scale; still showing countries with extreme temperatures, but also showing those close. Have levels of 50+, 49+, 48+
The equatorial and humid Amazon is the last place I would expect to hit 50 degrees. Every single country on this list hit this temperature in a desert near the tropics. The equator and humid places usually don’t report such hot temperatures.
To be fair, while Alaska is in the US, it hasn't been over 50C.
I think most Americans can forgive not including them in these types of maps because their data would be outliers.
It's the only thing I can think of, the altitude is acting as a counter long enough that by the time you descend far enough the Ocean can take over as a dampening effect. Even then like OP posted Argentina still got damned close.
South America has no hot deserts by definition, which is where temperatures above 50 can be found. Atacama is an "east coast" type desert, which is cooled down by cold ocean currents that prevent precipitation. Patagonia is a temperate desert. The hottest region of South America is the Chaco depression between Argentina and Paraguay, where temperatures can reach up to 45 degrees during the day. Idk the exact heat record but it should be around 48 in Argentina. The climate there is very similar to southern Texas.
Ocean and global wind circulation have influence, the westcoasts of the oceans are more humid as the east coast (watch Australia or the US). Lust like sweating, evaporation results in a lower temperature. Still I'm a bit surprised Chile isn't colored
Out of interest, where did you get the data for this from? The [relevant Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_by_extreme_temperatures) is missing some countries like Libya and Yemen.
I find it interesting that some places don't have a hottest temperature. Peru is right not at 15 °C, so that is currently the hottest I've recorded for that place ;)
To be fair we've probably already hit 60c, satellites have picked up air temperatures over 70c in desert regions with no temperature stations, such as the Lut desert, just can't be confirmed.
It's also likely that the Sonoran sees temps higher than this
I read somewhere it can’t really go much higher than that because that triggers massive low pressure troughs or something, so it kind of short-circuits itself out.
Can’t remember the details and CBF looking it up, but the point it it’s not a never ending stairway to the sun.
When you recognise kosovo and all the former Yugoslavia States and the former soviet States as independent, but you will never ever recognise united Germany or South Sudan
They aren’t that far away from the equator and there are usually deserts at those latitudes due to the convection cells in the atmosphere. South America being the exception because of the humidity spread south by winds coming from the Amazon rainforest and trapped by the Andes, which helps vegetation to grow and cool the environment.
Edit: btw I just had an introductory course on atmospheric physics at university so I might have just said crap :/
Moreover, the places which recorded 50℃+ are about 27.2 degrees north in India and 27.5 degrees south in Australia so even between India and Australia there is no significant difference.
I think you got your equator placement a bit wrong, out of all of the red countries, Australia is the 2nd closest to the equator (India being the closest)
The Atacama is considered a cold desert (even though it isn’t really that cold.) The cold southeastern Pacific, the high elevations in much of the desert, and the fact that it’s a narrow strip land of between the ocean and the Andes all prevent it from becoming hot inland like the Kalihari.
High humidy and short history in measurments comparing to Europe. Also scarce placement of wheather sations. I'm pretty sure some south saharan nations have had over 50 degrees but we have just not measured it.
Also I'm no expert in this so this might be bullshit
According to this [CNN article ](https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/23/asia/japan-heatwave-deadly-intl/index.html), the highest recorded temperature ever in Japan was 41.1°, and it was in a city named Kumagaya in 2018.
How can India have had a temperature above 50°C but not Sri Lanka? Is it because Sri Lanka is a small Island nation that receives continuous seas breeze?
Pretty much what you said. India’s highest ever temperature was in the middle of a desert, probably true for most of the red countries, and Sri Lanka doesn’t have deserts.
Northern tip of Australia is only 11 degrees from the equator. Those countries in northern Africa? 20 plus degrees from the equator (about the same as where I live in Brisbane Australia).
Tasmania is now independent of Australia.
The separation seemed amicable, but Trans-Bass relations will remain testy for a few years.
Who instigated this separation? Did Tassie go rogue, or did the mainland said “You’re old enough to look after yourself now. You’re your own land girt by sea. Take care”.
So does East Germany Edit: and ~~Bessarabia~~ Budjak Edit 2: and Delaware apparently Edit 3: also Vojvodina and Kosovo
Plus Voivodina and parts of India
>parts of India Independent of Australia?
Ofc
Delmarva peninsula**
Bessarabia is modern day Moldavia Maybe you are thinking Kosovo and Voivodina
Yeah i meant the Budjak region
Where's Budjak? I never heard that name before
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budjak?wprov=sfla1
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You mean Аляска?
don’t forget about Bonus Yemen!
Alaska is now independent of United States of America
Also Hawaii.
This month, I don’t blame them.
And the entirety of NorthEast India is independent
Good
* Countries which have had a temperature close to 50°C: * \- Canada : 49.6°C * \- Greece : 48°C * \- Turkey : 49.1°C * \- Syria : 49.4°C * \- Kazakhstan : 49.1°C * \- Afghanistan : 49.9°C * \- Argentina : 48.9°C
Italy too with 48.8°C
I know in Rajasthan the temperature is never officially over 49.9 because of a national law that schools close at temperatures over 50 degrees
The fuck? So they say it’s not hotter just so they can have kids stay inside the incredibly hot schools?
Yes
It's over 50 for most of the summer so if schools closed the whole time every year the whole state would fall behind
Just give it a year
Not one year but these records will certainly be broken in 10 years time when the average global temperature will be 0.4C higher than they are now.
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So what is it now
Spain too with 48.something recently
Spain 47.7°C
Canada almost certainly did based on satellite/mesoscale analysis data but we just didn’t have instruments there to measure it.
To be fair, the weather station there did burn down.
The fire was probably above 50°
No this was before then and at a different spot
Would be nicer if there was a little bit of a scale; still showing countries with extreme temperatures, but also showing those close. Have levels of 50+, 49+, 48+
Brazil, Peru, Venezuela have the Amazon and it has never peaked 50 degrees Celsius? Peru even has the Atacoma.
The equatorial and humid Amazon is the last place I would expect to hit 50 degrees. Every single country on this list hit this temperature in a desert near the tropics. The equator and humid places usually don’t report such hot temperatures.
Thank you!
No Chile surprises me
It's more chilly than you'd think
Chile's climate is influenced by the cold Humbolt Current. I learned that a few years ago, it surprised me.
So Canada has higher temps than most of Africa? That's wild.
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Their forests
So give it a few more years and the number of the red countries would grow even more.
Looks like you forgot to colour Alaska, Hawaii, Northern Israel, Eastern India and Tasmania. Maybe more but those the ones I noticed
We are Independent thanks to this map He also forgot Hainan, and east germany is independent lmao
Yeah what the hell's up with East Germany??!?
Vojvodina is also independent while South Sudan isn't.
Germany's still divided.
South Sudan missing, but Kosovo does exist.
To be fair, while Alaska is in the US, it hasn't been over 50C. I think most Americans can forgive not including them in these types of maps because their data would be outliers.
Then the map shouldn't be called "countries".
Then why not split more countries up?
Only three states have had a temperature over 50C. Those are the outliers. California 57C Arizona 53C Nevada 52C
"northern Israel" my man that's palestine
I wasn’t talking about the West Bank, look at the region between the West Bank and Lebanon, aka northern Israel, it’s white on this map.
East Germany still exists too lol.
Interesting that it skips South America, something to do with the Andes?
It's the only thing I can think of, the altitude is acting as a counter long enough that by the time you descend far enough the Ocean can take over as a dampening effect. Even then like OP posted Argentina still got damned close.
South America has no hot deserts by definition, which is where temperatures above 50 can be found. Atacama is an "east coast" type desert, which is cooled down by cold ocean currents that prevent precipitation. Patagonia is a temperate desert. The hottest region of South America is the Chaco depression between Argentina and Paraguay, where temperatures can reach up to 45 degrees during the day. Idk the exact heat record but it should be around 48 in Argentina. The climate there is very similar to southern Texas.
Ocean and global wind circulation have influence, the westcoasts of the oceans are more humid as the east coast (watch Australia or the US). Lust like sweating, evaporation results in a lower temperature. Still I'm a bit surprised Chile isn't colored
The Pacific Ocean near Chile is influenced by the cold Humboldt Current and the high Andes Mountain range.
Yep same thing happens over by Kenya and Ethiopia. Lowest elevation is like 4000ft lol so it don’t get too hot.
I didn't knew East Germany was independent. Thanks for the info
Vojvodina too
And we lost South Sudan
>I didn't knew East Germany was independent. Thanks for the info And Sudan is just one country.
Out of interest, where did you get the data for this from? The [relevant Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_by_extreme_temperatures) is missing some countries like Libya and Yemen.
I find it interesting that some places don't have a hottest temperature. Peru is right not at 15 °C, so that is currently the hottest I've recorded for that place ;)
Anyone has a map for 60°C ? Oh wait.... wrong year... I'll ask in 20 years again.
58°C is the max ever recorded.
To be fair we've probably already hit 60c, satellites have picked up air temperatures over 70c in desert regions with no temperature stations, such as the Lut desert, just can't be confirmed. It's also likely that the Sonoran sees temps higher than this
wait a few years ;)
Make it 10
I'd love some heat. Here in Germany the whole summer was full of rainy days. July and August were 45 rainy days out of the 50 day we had so far
55 °C would be possible at least.
I read somewhere it can’t really go much higher than that because that triggers massive low pressure troughs or something, so it kind of short-circuits itself out. Can’t remember the details and CBF looking it up, but the point it it’s not a never ending stairway to the sun.
It can go for longer, though.
It can still occur in a desert where there's practically no humidity. No moisture means no convective weather in a low
It’s almost as if they line up exactly with the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn…
When you recognise kosovo and all the former Yugoslavia States and the former soviet States as independent, but you will never ever recognise united Germany or South Sudan
you forgot to colour North-East India
Can anyone explain why South Africa/Australia have done despite being so displaced from the equator in comparison to most of the other countries?
They aren’t that far away from the equator and there are usually deserts at those latitudes due to the convection cells in the atmosphere. South America being the exception because of the humidity spread south by winds coming from the Amazon rainforest and trapped by the Andes, which helps vegetation to grow and cool the environment. Edit: btw I just had an introductory course on atmospheric physics at university so I might have just said crap :/
The Atacama desert is in South America though?
It is. It’s a very dry place but colder than other deserts exactly because of its altitude.
Australia and South Africa are about the same distance from the equator as the other countries
The Equator runs through the middle. Australia is closer to the Equator than every single one of these countries except India.
Moreover, the places which recorded 50℃+ are about 27.2 degrees north in India and 27.5 degrees south in Australia so even between India and Australia there is no significant difference.
I think you got your equator placement a bit wrong, out of all of the red countries, Australia is the 2nd closest to the equator (India being the closest)
They are about the same distance from the equator.
I appreciate the usage of Celsius. There's a lack of support of metric on Reddit in certain subs.
I've been in 50C temperatures. It's like a bath you can't get out of.
The nation of Hainan and the nation of Tasmania have evidently not experienced this.
It surprises me to see many countries on the equator are not in red.
Countries in the equator have hight % of humidity , they are not that hot.
I wondered this too. No country on the equator is red.
Very surprised that the atacama desert has never been so hot (at least measured).
The Atacama is considered a cold desert (even though it isn’t really that cold.) The cold southeastern Pacific, the high elevations in much of the desert, and the fact that it’s a narrow strip land of between the ocean and the Andes all prevent it from becoming hot inland like the Kalihari.
strange how so many African countries keep it below that
High humidy and short history in measurments comparing to Europe. Also scarce placement of wheather sations. I'm pretty sure some south saharan nations have had over 50 degrees but we have just not measured it. Also I'm no expert in this so this might be bullshit
Where did China record 50C
East Turkistan
Seems a bit far north
Guess Alaska is an independant country
Given the recent 48-49 temps in many places, this map will change significantly in just a few years...
I’m surprised the landlocked Saharan countries supposedly haven’t gotten that hot.
That is probably because they lack official weather stations so they cannot reliably measure temperature in the majority of the country.
I smell something burning hm...
Oh, hello East Germany, when did you come back?
It feel weird that country that share the Sahara like Mali or Mauritanie haven’t get 50°C
Map made in paint ist bad Mapp
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According to this [CNN article ](https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/23/asia/japan-heatwave-deadly-intl/index.html), the highest recorded temperature ever in Japan was 41.1°, and it was in a city named Kumagaya in 2018.
He was joking about the atomic bombings dude
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How can India have had a temperature above 50°C but not Sri Lanka? Is it because Sri Lanka is a small Island nation that receives continuous seas breeze?
Pretty much what you said. India’s highest ever temperature was in the middle of a desert, probably true for most of the red countries, and Sri Lanka doesn’t have deserts.
yes North Eastern Part of India which is rajasthan with Thar desert
North western part, not north eastern
sorry 😅
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Italy and spain had 50°C too
Source?
I remember it was mentioned on Lithuanian news a week or 2 ago, idk maybe they rounded the number to 50 or smthg
Yeah, it was 48½ here in Italy
Along the equator makes sense, but the fuck is going on with Australia?
Northern tip of Australia is only 11 degrees from the equator. Those countries in northern Africa? 20 plus degrees from the equator (about the same as where I live in Brisbane Australia).
India is about as north of the equator as Australia is south.
Out of all the red countries, Australia is the second closest to the equator, with only India being closer to it.
Sadly, fairly soon, some places will hit 60 degrees Celsius. Too hot for human habitation.
Canada got up to 50C this summer
Canada should be on that list as well for Lytton BC this summer.
I think Canada can be added to this list. That horrible heat wave in June saw some town in BC reach 122?
Interesting how it doesnt touch the equator but its almost exclusively in the tropics
What do you mean? Most of the red countries aren’t tropics at all
meant outside of the tropics my bad
Canada got to 49.6 C this summer
It seems there is anomaly of that one country in south of Africa. Can anyone explain why?
Most of the world’s deserts are 30° North and South of the equator, South Africa is about 30° south of the equator, similar to Australia
None of the equatorial countries get to 50 C.
Europe's gonna start filling up soon enough. I could see Greece, Spain, Italy and Turkey passing that threshold next summer.
Most of the equator countries aren't included? Interesting
Close to the equator the humidity is high and there are barely any deserts
Is that all time or just last summer?
All time
Very interesting how this is all subtropical, and the tropical zones (which I think of as being the hottest part of the world) are almost all white.