INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
ISLAMABAD: Following years of tireless investigation, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced that two recent temperature
readings have been accepted among the hottest recorded on Earth.One of the scorching marks came from the Middle East, the other from South
Asia.According to the WMO the Mitrabah observation, in the north west of Kuwait, saw temperatures hit 53.9°C on July 21, 2016.It is also
the highest temperature ever recorded in Asia.The WMO also confirmed that the fourth highest temperature (53.7°C) was noted in Turbat, in
southern Balochistan, Pakistan, on May 28, 2017."The Mitribah, Kuwait temperature is now accepted by the WMO as the highest temperature ever
recorded for the continental region of Asia," the organization wrote in a statement.It continued, "The two observations are the third (tied
within uncertainty limits) and fourth highest WMO-recognized temperature extremes."Both readings are also the highest temperatures recorded
on the planet in the past 76 years.&This investigation highlights the fact that we can now conduct extremely in-depth analysis of weather
extremes," said Randall Cerveny, chief rapporteur of climate and weather extremes for the WMO."Rigorous investigations such as this
independent temperature sensor calibration give us much higher confidence in our existing climate records, and consequently provide a solid
basis for examining records being broken around the world and for studies of attribution of extremes to climate change,& he said.The WMO
archive of weather and climate extremes includes the world highest and lowest temperatures, rainfall, heaviest hailstone, longest dry
period, maximum gust of wind, as well as hemispheric weather and climate extremes, The Weather Channel reported.Notably, the WMO list of
highest global temperatures does not include a 54 deg C recorded in Furnace Creek at Death Valley, California, on June 30, 2013
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