A temperature of almost 120 degrees Fahrenheit was reported in Sicily on Wednesday, and if verified, would be Europe's hottest day ever.
The 48.8 degrees Celsius temperature was recorded by Sicily's agriculture-meteorological information service, SIAS, at its Syracuse station.
The hottest verified temperature on the continent is 48 degrees Celsius, or 118.4 degrees Fahrenheit, in Greece on July 10, 1977. A man and his dog refresh in a fountain of Catania, Sicily, Southern Italy, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021 where the temperature reached 45 degrees Celsius .The high temperature reading in Syracuse in southwest Sicily came as a heatwave is baking parts of the Mediterranean.
The hottest temperature ever recorded had been said to be 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit from Libya on Sept. 13, 1922. But the WMO in 2012A team that investigated the El Azizia record identified several issues, including a likely inexperienced observer and an unsuitable thermometer that could be easily misread, and the extreme didn't correspond with other sites.
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