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You might think that Al Aziziyah, the site of the world's
highest ever temperature, would be located somewhere in the middle of
the Sahara Desert.
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Surprisingly, it's just a few miles south of the Mediterranean
Sea, near the Libya's capitol city of Tripoli. Rarely, if ever, during
the past several years has this town recorded the world's highest daily
temperature.
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In September 1922, it would not have been out of the question
that somewhere in northwestern Libya, other than Al Aziziyah, the temperature
exceeded 136 degrees.
