Records of weather, temperatures, snowfall and precipitation

What are the weather records in the Guinness Book of Records? What is the highest temperature in the world and the warmest region in the world? What is the coldest region in the world? What is the strongest hurricane in history? Where did the largest amount of snow fall in the world? And where did the greatest amount of rain fall on Earth?

Weather records:

• The record recorded for the highest temperature in the world in the Guinness Book of Records was 58 degrees Celsius in the Azizia region in Libya in 1922, but in 2012 this figure was stripped of its eligibility, and the title of the warmest region in the world was given to the Death Valley region in California with a temperature 56.7 °C.

• In the Guinness Book of Records, the record for the highest “lowest” air temperature in 24 hours is 42.6 degrees Celsius, and it was recorded on 6/26/2018 in the Qurayyat region in the Sultanate of Oman.

• The record for the world's coldest was updated in 2019, to -98 °C (minus 98 °C) in 6 to 9 feet of ice in the East Antarctic Plateau (East Antarctic Plateau).

• The longest time a person spent in direct contact with snow without interruption was 1 hour and 8 seconds, in Kyrylo Trelyovsky City Park in Kolomyya, Ukraine, on 1/25/2013. And this record was recorded in the name of the Ukrainian Oleksiy Gutsoliak.

• Mount Baker in Washington - USA leads the world record for the largest amount of snowfall in one year (the most amount of snow in the world), as it recorded nearly 29 meters of snow in the 1998-1999 season.

• The record for the amount of snowfall during one month was also achieved by Mount Baker in Washington - USA, with 772 cm of snow.

• Although Typhoon Tip that hit the western Pacific Ocean ranks in the middle of the list of the 10 strongest hurricanes in the world when it comes to wind speed, when it comes to central pressure, it ranks as the most powerful tropical cyclone ever recorded anywhere on Earth, reaching to the lowest central pressure on earth of 870 millibars , in 1979.

• The most rainfall in the world during a year fell in Mawsinram, which is located in the state of Meghalaya in India, and it is the most rainy area in the world, with an average annual precipitation of 11,871 mm. The area's rainfall rises to 12 metres, making the area home to rivers and waterfalls.

• The longest drought in history has been measured in years . There was not a single drop of rain in Arica - Chile for over 14 years, from October 1903 to January 1918 - a total of 173 months!

• The Kolyma Highway (M56) in Russia is the coldest road on Earth, as temperatures on this road drop to minus 67.7 degrees Celsius .

• Explore records and more weather information in the Weather Information and Weird Facts article .