Planet Earth is setting records for heat, but it all started long before scientists seriously thought about global warming.
To this day, the hottest place on Earth is considered to be Death Valley, which is located in the state of California.
Death Valley is an intermountain depression located near the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
It is the lowest geographic point on the continent.
It was here on July 10, 1913 that the air temperature reached +56.7 degrees Celsius.
According to representatives of the Guinness Book of Records, the record has not been broken to this day.
High temperatures are nothing new for this area. The average daytime temperature here reaches +46 degrees.
Nights are not much cooler, +31 degrees.
Only from November to February do the thermometers drop to +20, and sometimes even +5 degrees Celsius.
Frosts are rare and short-lived, and snow falls extremely rarely. Mostly there are heavy rains.
The most interesting thing is that the ancient Timbisha Indian tribe lives in Death Valley.
They settled here more than a thousand years ago and have no plans to leave the settlement.