{"id":8942,"date":"2012-09-13T11:56:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T17:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/examiner-com\/new-world-high-temperature-record-holder-death-valley-california\/"},"modified":"2012-09-13T12:10:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T18:10:52","slug":"new-world-high-temperature-record-holder-death-valley-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climatology\/new-world-high-temperature-record-holder-death-valley-california\/","title":{"rendered":"New world high temperature record holder: Death Valley, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced today that the record holder for the hottest temperature ever recorded on the planet had been changed. A record dating back to 1922 in El Azizia, Libya was deemed invalid and thus the honor now falls on a temperature recorded in Death Valley, California in 1913. \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/new-world-high-temperature-record-holder-death-valley-california\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com\u00a0and find out why the &#8216;honor&#8217; was taken away from Libya.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/new-world-high-temperature-record-holder-death-valley-california\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has given the world's highest temperature record to a reading taken in 1913 in Death Valley, California. Click the image to find out why.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/mobile_rss\/hash\/1347558926_8390_hightemprecord.jpg\" alt=\"The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has given the world's highest temperature record to a reading taken in 1913 in Death Valley, California. Click the image to find out why.\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has given the world&#39;s highest temperature record to a reading taken in 1913 in Death Valley, California. Click the image to find out why.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced today that the record holder for the hottest temperature ever recorded on the planet had been changed. A record dating back to 1922 in El Azizia, Libya was deemed invalid and thus the honor now falls on a temperature recorded in Death Valley, California in 1913. \u00a0Read the rest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climatology\/new-world-high-temperature-record-holder-death-valley-california\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New world high temperature record holder: Death Valley, California<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,540],"tags":[609,610,24,185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8944,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942\/revisions\/8944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}