Record di caldo
Sintesi redazionale: Tra il 2022 e il 2025, 41 paesi hanno battuto o eguagliato i propri record nazionali di caldo di tutti i tempi. Lo scorso agosto il Giappone ha registrato la giornata più calda mai registrata, con una temperatura di 41,8 °C/107,2 °F a Isesaki, nella prefettura di Gunma.... Fonte originale: https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/dilemmas/heat-records-2-2026-06/
<p>41 countries broke or tied their all-time national heat records, between 2022 and 2025.</p><p>Japan saw its hottest day on record last August, reaching 41.8°C/107.2°F in Isesaki, in the Gunma Prefecture.</p><p>Eight other countries tied or beat their heat records last year, including Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Paraguay.</p><p>Cambodia set a new record at 42.8 °C/109.0 °F in 2024, while Laos hit a new all-time high of 43.7 °C/110.7 °F.</p><p>Australia and Uruguay matched their national records in 2022, with 50.7 °C/123.3 °F in Onslow and 44.0°C/111.2 °F in Florida.</p><p>The UK broke an all-time high in July 2022 as it passed the 40°C barrier.</p><p>Canada, Spain and Italy recorded peak temperatures in 2021.</p><p>in 2024, Italian record, 48.8 °C/119.8 °F at Syracuse, wascreported to be the highest temperature ever measured in Europe.</p><p>In Antarctica, a new record was hit in 2020 at the Esperanza base during the austral summer when temperatures rose to over 18 °C/64.9 °F.</p><p>One year earlier, the French national record of 46 °C/114.8 °F was measured at Vérargues (Hérault), while the 2019 heatwave also saw other records broken in Europe, such as in Belgium and Germany.</p><p>According to the WMO, the world record is still officially attributed to Furnace Creek, in California’s Death Valley National Park, with 56.7 °C/134 °F reached in 1913.</p>