Mitribah is a weather station (40551 in the World Meteorological Organization database) in northwest Kuwait. On July 21, 2016, the temperature at this location hit the third highest temperature ever reliably recorded on Earth at 54 °C (129 °F).[1][2][3][4]
^"Kuwait being swept by 'abnormal' heat wave — Mitribah records hottest ever temperature of 54 C – Kuwait Times". Kuwait Times. 23 July 2016.
^G. Ballester Valor (22 July 2016). "Synop report summary [at 16:00 UTC for the 30 days preceding 22 July 2016]". Ogimet. tiempo.com. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
^Livingston, Ian (June 18, 2019). "Recent scorching temperatures in Kuwait and Pakistan confirmed as third and fourth hottest on Earth". Washington Post. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
^"WMO verifies 3rd and 4th hottest temperature recorded on Earth". WMO. Archived from the original on December 18, 2023. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
29°49′N 47°22′E / 29.817°N 47.367°E / 29.817; 47.367 Mitribah is a weather station (40551 in the World Meteorological Organization database) in northwest...
0 °C (129.2 °F), also recorded in Death Valley on 20 June 2013, and in Mitribah, Kuwait on 21 July 2016. There have since been higher readings of 54.4 °C...
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the highest ever temperature recorded in Kuwait was 54 °C (129 °F) at Mitribah on 21 July 2016 which is the highest recorded temperature in Asia and also...
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