Visitors walk near a sign warning in Death Valley National Park. Picture: Twitter

Gulf Today Report

The Death Valley, located in the southern California desert, on Tuesday, witnessed a new world record temperature by 54.4ºC, becoming the highest temperature ever recorded in the world in more than 100 years.

The last highest temperature officially recorded in Death Valley was 56.7ºC (134ºF), which was monitored on July 10, 1913.

Death Valley is a desert and driest valley in USA.  During summer peak it experiences immense heat and extreme cold during the winter months.

According to the "Arab Weather" website, the world’s highest recorded temperature was 58 ºC in the Aziziyah area in Libya, in 1992.

A general view of the Death Valley.

But, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ruled out that the measuring was accurate, so it did not document it as the highest recorded temperature in the world.

The website indicated that the WMO concluded through an investigation that the Aziziyah’s record could be inaccurate by up to 7 ºC due to a combination of factors including the asphalt-like surface on which the record took place, and this does not give the accurate measuring of temperature of the original soil.

The correct or accurate scientific way to measure temperatures that is universally recognizes is to measure air temperatures in the "shadow", because thermometer with which temperatures are measured will be affected by rays if it is placed under direct sunlight, and will not give a real measuring of temperature, the WMO said.