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Death Valley, Calif. officially recognized as world's hottest spot

The World Meteorological Organization says the title comes after it investigated a long-held record from El Azizia, Libya, and found that an inexperienced weather observer recorded the temperature incorrectly.

By Associated Press / September 14, 2012

Late afternoon light tints the mountains as two hikers trek across Stovepipe Wells sand dunes in Death Valley, Calif., in 2003.

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An international team of weather experts has named California'sDeath?Valley?the world's hottest place.

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The World Meteorological Organization says the title comes after it investigated a long-held record from El Azizia, Libya, and found that an inexperienced weather observer recorded the temperature incorrectly.

The Libyan record was logged as 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit (58 Celsius) on Sept. 13, 1922 ? 90 years ago Thursday. The new official highest recorded surface temperature is 136 degrees (57.8 Celsius) on July 10, 1913, in?Death?Valley.

The committee included experts from Libya, the United States, Egypt and other countries.

Experts say the Libyan record was set after the observer broke a more reliable instrument and used a complicated and less reliable type of thermometer. They believe the temperature was off by about 5 degrees Fahrenheit.

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/yoONghAam4s/Death-Valley-Calif.-officially-recognized-as-world-s-hottest-spot

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