The temper­ature in the city rose to a stagge­ring 50.2°CThe temperature in Nawabshah rose to a staggering 50.2° Celsius earlier this week, marking the highest temperature recorded on the planet during the month of April, The Washington Post reported. Etienner Kapikian a metreologist at Meteo France posted this observation on Twitter claiming it to be the warmest April temperature ever recorded in Pakistan and the Asian continent in its entirety. An expert on global weather extremes, Christopher Burt went a step further and added in an email that the temperature recorded in Nawabshah was the highest temperature yet to be observed reliably on earth in modern records. The record-setting 50.2° C reading in Nawabshah adds to a long list of international hot weather extremes since 2017, including Spain’s and Iran’s highest ever temperatures recorded in the previous summer. In May 2017, Turbat hit 53.5°C tying the all-time highest temperature in Pakistan and the world-record temperature for that month, Weather Underground’s Jeff Masters reported.

Source: The Express Tribune May 02, 2018 07:18 UTC