Record Heat: 9 Nations That Topped Their Highest Temperatures This Summer (PHOTOS)

2010 has been dominated by extreme natural phenomena, becoming known as the year of 'global weirding.' Heat waves are just one of the many dramatic forces in weather that have been wreaking havoc across the world, scorching populations from South America to the Middle East.

According to Dr. Jeff Masters, co-founder of Weather Underground, 15 countries have set new records for high temperatures so far this year, and two have matched their prior record.

On his Wunder Blog, Masters writes that even the amount of countries experiencing record temperatures sets a new record, as never has such a large area of the Earth's surface -- 19 percent -- experienced all-time record high temperatures in a single year.

Here are 9 nations that have reached unprecedented sizzling hot temperatures. Check out the full list HERE.

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On May 26, Pakistan hit a scorching temperature of 128.3F, which not only set a record for the country but for all of Asia, as well. Pakistan has also been devastated by recent torrential flooding, the worst the country has ever seen, which has claimed over 1,100 lives and submerged one-fifth of the nation.

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On May 26, Pakistan hit a scorching temperature of 128.3F, which not only set a record for the country but for all of Asia, as well. Pakistan has also been devastated by recent torrential flooding, the worst the country has ever seen, which has claimed over 1,100 lives and submerged one-fifth of the nation.

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[StephenBP]

09:10 PM on 09/13/2010

Okay. The headline says " Nine Nations That Topped Their Highest Records This Summer (PHOTOS). And, in fact , 15 countries were reported to have topped their highest records this year. Yet the headline strikes SFTor as overblown......

If he thinks that headline is overblown, how would he have felt about this line from NOAA:

•The July worldwide land surface temperature was 1.03°C (1.85°F) above the 20th century average of 14.3°C (57.8°F)—the warmest July on record.

See... no unfair "national records" that disproportionately award media points to large countries having record hot years.... just the average of the whole planetary land mass....

What will it take to convince people who are in lock step with the fossil fuel industry that they are being fed a line of bull by the likes of Anthony Watts?

Sadly, it will probably have to be something like catastrophic crop failure.

[SFTor]

06:05 PM on 09/12/2010

I'm revisiting this post. It strikes me that the headline is a little overbroad.

Was there really nine countries that had higher than average temperatures, or regions within these countries?

Russia for instance stretches over five time zones.Parts of of the country had normal or below-normal temperatures. Snow was early this year. It arrived about two weeks ahead of schedule, during the first days of September.

[SFTor]

06:08 PM on 09/12/2010

As a matter of fact the largest area of Russia had normal or below normal temperatures during the heatwave in Western Russia.

Here:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/14/more-of-the-moscow-heat-wave-satellite-analysis/

[MGhamma]

08:07 PM on 09/13/2010

And still 2010 is shaping up to be the warmest year on record globally.

So what's your point?

[TQQ]

08:25 PM on 09/06/2010

It was a very nice summer. The warm temps are wonderful.

[Publicola]

04:19 PM on 09/14/2010

Devastating Flooding In Ladakh

18 August, 2010

Early in the morning of August 6th an unusually strong thunderstorm hit Ladakh, a remote Himalayan region in the Indian state of Jammu-Kashmir on the western edge of the Tibetan plateau. Ladakh is normally one of the driest inhabited areas in the world – a region unaccustomed to heavy rains. When the intense cloudburst hit early on the morning of the 6th, the impact was especially severe. The storm caused massive flash flooding that left over one hundred dead and many more missing...

Many of the region's roads as well as its telecommunications and electricity infrastructure were damaged. Hundreds of homes and buildings have collapsed, agricultural fields have been washed out, and irrigation canals severely eroded. Much of the region's traditional infrastructure has also been badly damaged.

"I never in my life saw thunder and lightning like that," 86-year old Sonam Angmo told me, her eyes wide with disbelief. "And once in a while we had some small landslides… but not like this," she added, pointing at the horrific scene of destruction in the valley below – houses, cars andtrucks smashed into fragments by a huge mudslide.

Like Sonam Angmo, elders in Ladakh all insist that nothing of this kind has ever happened before. Many are talking about a wrathful nature punishing people for the waste and pollution they have created...

http://www.countercurrents.org/hodge180810.htm

[RobChattaTN]

11:11 AM on 09/03/2010

I've heard less from the 'global warming naysayers'
this summer than ever....
strangely silent...just crickets...
have they converted to believers?
finally?
hahahahaha

[LetsGoSteve]

09:19 AM on 09/02/2010

Let's cut to the chase before it is to late. Let us turn all of our resources over to the politicians so they can distribute it to the science community, who will deliver us from the weather.

[Gfspell]

08:46 PM on 09/01/2010

YUM, E. coli soup!

[MrUniteUs]

10:41 AM on 08/31/2010

Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch. Supports Climate change legislation including the carbon
tax. What?! How could this be?

Record drought in his beloved Australia.

Murdoch has shown little love for the U.S. since buying his citizenship, so he could buy a television network. His heart and most of his money are overseas

[Kruddler]

01:06 AM on 09/04/2010

Record drought? Many parts of Australia are experiencing their wettest year since 1996 and the ski season in our alpine areas are the best in at least 20 years. Drought is a natural part of the Australian climate. Our recent drought was matched in scale and time by the Federation drought at the turn of the 20th century.

[afro diziac]

08:43 AM on 08/29/2010

Global warming is real
http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi3990226457/

[Nichole Boultas]

02:49 AM on 08/29/2010

Whoa! Those are some hot temps! But in the Solomon Islands the 90's aren't bad.

[AkilahW]

04:06 PM on 08/27/2010

The rock and the hard place; Earth being a closed system, and the influx of warmer temperatures. It is very important that we start to live more consciously off of our planet's resources. The rate limiting factor in this is how can we alter our current need for instancy, and modernity, (which includes our drive for greater, and for more, that render the outcomes of acting as stressors on the planet; i.e. our factories, the inadvertent spread of GMO's, or possibly like these series of photos show, the heightened affects of climate change), to satisfy the provision capacity of the planet. There is obviously no one response or view to this, but very interesting that the average temperatures in those areas have hit record highs.

[wdw505]

10:47 AM on 08/27/2010

that's what A/C is for

[SFTor]

03:45 AM on 08/27/2010

The picture of the Solomon Islands is too funny. It's either the Solomon Islands or somewhere in Sweden or Norway, most likely Norway, unless the Solomon Islanders have taken a shine to red barns and Jugend-style houses. Just an observation.

[DocSkull]

09:11 AM on 08/27/2010

Right you are SFTor. That picture is of Solomon Islands, Maryland USA.

[Blues02]

09:28 PM on 08/26/2010

No thanks i'll stick with my 107.

[yallerdog]

09:26 PM on 08/26/2010

And yet South America is experiencing one their coldest winters in history. http://digitaljournal.com/article/295722. Oddly enough, Huffington Post has not mentioned it. I guess it's just not convenient to fit in.

[The last sane American]

06:41 AM on 08/27/2010

Beat me to it. I might add though, that the cold is more widespread than just South America.

You see, they (the anthropogenic Climate Change proponents - formally the AGW crowd) have got it right. Climates do change and react to many other earth and cosmic cycles. They have just a poor understanding of man's impact as yet.

[DocSkull]

06:42 PM on 08/30/2010

"Climates do change and react to many other earth and cosmic cycles."

What "cosmic cycle" accounts for the present warming? The sun's radiation isn't enough to account for it.

[WeWantSocialismNow]

10:21 AM on 08/27/2010

Remember when we had our cold winter, this site blamed it on global warming. It's kind of like my Uncle Bud who had a rule that he would never drink until 5pm. He drank all the time figuring that it was 5pm somewhere. This climate warming stuff makes as much sense.

[DocSkull]

06:41 PM on 08/30/2010

"This climate warming stuff makes as much sense."

It isn't that difficult to understand. Burning fossil fuels produces CO2 which collects in the atmosphere and reflects heat energy back to the planet. The result is a progressively warming planet with limited means of again collecting up that CO2.

[Js420]

03:50 PM on 08/26/2010

116 yesterday in the Coachella Valley. only thing worse than the heat is the snowbirds that come when its all over