<P> The standard measuring conditions for temperature are in the air, 1.5 meters above the ground, and shielded from direct sunlight . The highest confirmed temperature on Earth recorded according to these measures was 54 ° C (129 ° F) recorded in Mitribah, Kuwait on 21 July 2016 . </P> <P> Aside from these confirmed records of 54 ° C (129 ° F), there are reports that Furnace Creek Ranch, California, located in the Death Valley desert in the United States, might have registered 56.7 ° C (134.1 ° F) on July 10, 1913 - what some weather experts today refute as a measurement error . </P>

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