Weather records on our planetHi and welcome to our "weather records" page. If you're interested in extreme climate and weather types , than this page is something for you. The hottest temperature ever measured on Earth? The coldest temperature ever measured?.. This, and a few records more will be revealed further on this page... So , stay with us and learn all about the registered weather records on Earth. We start with the driest and one of the wettest places on our planet. The world driest place..Is claimed by the Atacama desert in Chili. Some people are convinced that it never rains in this part of the world, but that's hard to believe. In fact, there are two places on Earth that can compete for the driest place and these places are: The Atacama and the Lut desert in Iran.
Atacama desert in Northern Chili is chosen by the United States Geological Survey as driest place, and the Lut desert in Iran is declared the driest place by Encyclopedia Britannica.
It's probably a split decision, because both places are extremely dry, and rainfalls happens to get here every 5 to 10 years. For a real thunderstorm with heavy rainfall, you'll have to wait about 20 to 50 years.
The world wettest spotTo You have to go to India and to the Pacific ocean.. In India... More exactly to a place called Mawsynram. It has a yearly average rainfall of 12 meters. There are again two places next to each other who claim this record. The other place called Cherrapunji, is only 16 kilometers away and is in competition with Mawsynram for the wettest place on Earth.
Both are situated in North East India in Meghalaya State. The other wettest record claim lays in Waialeale on Hawai's Kauai Mt It has also an average of over 472 inches or 39 feet (12 meters) of precipitation each year. So, you could say that it's a break even between the United States and India when it's about the wettest place. 
These places get so much rain not only because of the monsoon rains, but also of their high location in the mountains. All the clouds release their water because they can't get passed the mountains anyway.
Huge amounts of moist air and clouds are forced to go up to the hills, and so releasing all their rainfall just on that side of the mountain, or higher in the form of rain or snow. All this water flows through the lower valleys, and finally to the sea.
Believe it or not,but both towns suffers also from severe water shortages. Because of deforestation in the region, the soil in this area has no absorption ability. The victims from these enormous amounts of rainfall are a few hundreds of miles further in an other country, Bangladesh.
All the rain that's falling in ,Mawsynram and Cherrapunji, (and also on other places), all this water flows through the Ganges, the Brahmaputra (Jamuna or Jomuna), and Meghna rivers and their respective tributaries into the Bangladesh. The coldest spot on EarthAntarctica has a few weather records on it's list. One of these records is the coldest temperature ever measured. It was at Vostok ( Russian weather station on Antarctica)on July 21 1983, and the temperature was -129 °F, or -89.2 °C temperatures below -120°F or -80°C are not an exceptional on this arctic continent.
It is not only extremely cold, but also very dry on this continent. With an average of 4 mm of water,ice,snow par month is measured. This is as much as the Sahara desert has.
Antarctica has also the average coldest temperature, and it is the windiest place on Earth also.
It holds not the record of highest average altitude, and that's maybe the reason that this continent holds a few weather records. The average elevation of the South Pole is 2,835 meters (9,300 feet). The coldest temperature ever measured in the US was in Alaska, Prospect Creek : -62°C -80°F
The coldest city in the world is Yakutsk, Siberia Russia. In this city there are about 210.000 people living all year long. ... The coldest temperature ever recorded in Yakutsk was -64.4°C (-84°F) Yakutsk is also build on the permafrost, this means that the soil is permanently frozen.
Climate change can hold a big problem for this area. With the warming of our planet, it can cause a lot of damage to houses, roads, and railways. This means also a serious security problem. The world hottest spot!The hottest temperature in the U.S. ever recorded most likely occurred in Death Valley, California. . During 43 days,between July 6 and August 17, the temperature was over 48 °C or 120°F. The national weather service recorded 56.7 °C or 134 °F , on July 10, 1913. 
The weather records of temperature (hottest)ever measured: In the world was in El Azizia, Libya,September 13 ,1922 : 136 °F or 58 °C Longest hot spell (world): Marble Bar, W. Australia, 100 °F 38 °C for 162 consecutive days, Oct. 30, 1923 to Apr. 7, 1924.As you may have noticed, these weather records date of almost a century ago... So, this means that it's not only hot in our times,but it's being in the past also! Wasn't it so ?
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