Comments by "Andy Dee" (@AndyViant) on "American Reacts to The HOTTEST Place in Australia" video.

  1. Australia has such low population density that a lot of places just don't get temperature recordings. There's certainly higher recordings but whether they meet all the standards for "validated meteorological recording" is another story. Plenty of places have claimed higher temperatures, and some of those were probably accurate, but many were the thermometer on a post type recording. Old newspapers talk about 125 degree Fahrenheit recordings, but the difference between a shielded proper recording and a "bragging rights" recording is huge. This is from a guy who used to see in direct sunlight temperatures at work in excess of 58 degrees celsius, and temperatures inside machinery exceeding 70 celsius regularly at work... Death Valley is a bit of a special case, being so far below sea level and in a huge heat bowl. There are places in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya and Australia that might well be able to go close though. There's little likelihood that the 1913 Death Valley temperature is accurate and it will eventually get decertified, although it is possible that it was tied in with a heat burst effect, but there just isn't enough evidence to support that. It's such an outlier that it's extremely unlikely to be accurate. Even so, Death Valley will still probably keep the record, because it still has accurate and verifiable records up to around 54 celsius
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