Highest recorded temperature in a given year

[Grinkle]

I thought this would be easy to find - but I can't find it. All the data I can find on-line is local to location.

I am looking for data showing the highest recorded temperature on the planet per year over the past 30 years.

Does anyone know if such data is compiled / accessible?

 

[jedishrfu]

I found this reference but its not what youre looking for:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremes_on_Earth#Coldest_and_hottest_inhabited_places_on_Earth

Also the history guy channel on youtube had an episode on a town in the US in 1943 with some amazing temperature extremes that occurred within minutes of one another whila an arctic cold front battled with a Chinook wind warm front.

 

[Tom.G]

Try here:
Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)
https://public.wmo.int/en/programmes/global-climate-observing-system

 

[Grinkle]

Thanks for the links. I'll keep looking. I do like the GCOS page - lots of great articles to dig through.

 

[256bits]

there is
http://berkeleyearth.org/ which has datasets.
http://berkeleyearth.org/data/
in gridded NetCDF format
https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/

source files
http://berkeleyearth.org/source-files/
and analysis code SVN, ( Matlab they say )
or direct download ( ../tar/gz )( dnld says 11 min on this computer but I canceled - I don't know what it looks like - billions of data btw )
http://berkeleyearth.org/analysis-code/

You will have to sift through the data, to get what you want.
And the site has some nice graphs

 

[Bystander]

Article. (2013), Geophysical Research Letters: Compo, G. P., P. D. .

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/grl.50425

 

[dextercioby]

I thought this would be easy to find - but I can't find it. All the data I can find on-line is local to location.

I am looking for data showing the highest recorded temperature on the planet per year over the past 30 years.

Does anyone know if such data is compiled / accessible?

One can check also check the two famous weather websites on a daily basis: Ogimet.com and rp5.ru.
They give the lowest and highest temperature in the network of stations which transmit data in the international flow.

 

[BWV]

Arent there just a couple of below-sea level desert depressions like Death Valley in CA where the highest temperatures would be recorded?

Here is Death Valley max by year
https://www.currentresults.com/Year...reme-annual-death-valley-high-temperature.php

 

[dextercioby]

Arent there just a couple of below-sea level desert depressions like Death Valley in CA where the highest temperatures would be recorded?

Here is Death Valley max by year
https://www.currentresults.com/Year...reme-annual-death-valley-high-temperature.php

Actually, it is undecided each year. There about 5 to 10 weather stations where one measures 50.0 C or more almost yearly. Check out Basra in Iraq and the 6-7 stations in Kuwait.