What could be warmer

HIGHEST TEMPERATURE OF AIR ON THE PLANET Is it hot? On Earth, there are many places where pretty hot - record-breaking hot. In fact, there are good chances that the day when the weather station registered in 1922, a record temperature of 136 ° F/57, 8 ° C in El Aziz (north-west of Libya), in some places, hundreds of miles there was even hotter. In all likelihood, this record-breaking temperatures since exceeded in many places on Earth, but on this score is not officially reported data. It should be noted that the recorded atmospheric temperature is the temperature did not surface, which can sometimes be as high as 150 ° F (66 ° C), as well, the air at a height of 5 feet (1.6 meters) above the surface in a closed Meteorological booth. Of course, it is important that the temperature sensor is not exposed to direct sunlight: Booth has louvers for the passage of air flow through the sensor. Most people try to avoid those places where he regularly experienced record temperatures, so that there are not too many weather stations. This fact is an additional argument in favor of guesses about how many cases a record of air temperatures on the planet go unreported. The classic desert landscape near the town of El Azizia desert lands No matter how big the Earth, more than two-thirds of its surface is covered with water of the oceans. The remaining one-third of the earth's surface - land on which we live, but only a third of its area deystvitelnosuhaya. In fact, this inhospitable desert. Most of the world's deserts are located between 5 and 30 degrees latitude north and south of the equator, the so-called subtropical zones. Scientists came to the theory that these belts of deserts has occurred due to two factors - the heat and lack of moisture. Caravan in the desert near the town of El Azizia sounds trite, however, try to thoroughly investigate. Anyone who has ever once been in the open air on a hot summer day, says that when some place hot and dry, then there should be formed by desert. In this case, let's not forget that nearly every continent on Earth, populated by people who goes through seasonal changes in weather, with clear differences between winter and summer. Only that the summer is hot and dry weather, does not mean that the place where you live is going to turn into a desert. The answer to the question of what makes the desert so dry and hot, simple. "Blame" climatic conditions, which remain almost unchanged throughout the year. In every part of the world where hot and dry for quite a long period during the year, as a rule, there are no conditions for maintaining the life of plants or animals. Living creatures need water to survive. Temperature map of the Earth at different times of the year Why is there all the time the drought? Firstly, the air around the equator of the earth's atmosphere the most warm (because the sun's rays hit the earth at a right angle 90 °), so that warmer air masses are lifted and moved to the north and south of the equator. As the air accumulates in the northern and southern latitudes, these zones are "great weight" of warm air are permanent areas of high pressure. Since the air in the lower part of the "masses" descends, it heats the surface even more. Since in this descending warm air no clouds (ie, condensed water vapor), scorching sun rays pass through the air and the heated surface of the ground beneath it even more. Hence the excessive heat. Scheme winds, WA - zone of high pressure, ND - zone of low pressure warm air can hold much more moisture (water vapor) than cold air. If this is really the warm air does not collide with a much cooler air (or colder earth mass), then nothing could lure him out of the moisture in the form of precipitation (rain, fog). That is why we obtain "acute" lack of moisture. Hot air circulation air heated in the equatorial zone, moves north and south, forming a permanent winds are called trade winds. As these warm winds circulate back to the equator, they rise again in the upper atmosphere cools. Water vapor in the mass of the cooled air condenses and is deposited in the form of heavy rains around the equator in the tropics. Torrential rains led to the fact that the earth around the equator is covered by the most luxuriant vegetation. Equatorial part of the earth's surface is the wettest, with the most dense forests in the world (plants love moisture!). Ironically, the wettest and hottest place in the world are just a few thousand kilometers from each other. Although the hottest place in the world, El Aziz, and a desert, not all of the desert - hot. Antarctica, for example, is the driest continent on earth, with precipitation, which does not hold up to 10 cm per year. What characterizes and defines the desert, is a lack of precipitation - less than 20 cm per year. In Antarctica, very little precipitation as rain or snow. And, although water is everywhere, it turned to ice. The second hottest place in the world is Death Valley. It was recorded temperature 134 ° F (56,6 ° C), it happened almost a hundred years ago, July 10, 1913 The world's tallest thermometer - is set in Death Valley, the place where it was recorded the highest temperature See also : Land Basin biggest edifice that was built on the planet living beings ... It flows from the rocks water ordinary record of a tsunami wave height Desert-record the largest lake in the world based on the volume and surface area record highs over the world have a rival Everest! 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