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| | Temperature and Precipitation Extremes |
Extremes for the most recent seven days
| Hottest |
110°F (Mar 23) Kayes, Mali (14N/11W) 109°F (Mar 27) Birao, Central African Rep. (10N/23E) |
| Coldest |
-90°F (Mar 27) Amundsen-Scott (South Antarctica) (90S/0W) -57°F (Mar 27) Argos #1178 ( Antarctica) (74S/56E) |
| Wettest |
12.20" (Mar 29) Magdalena, Bolivia (13S/64W) 12.04" (Mar 29) Zanzibar, Tanzania (6S/39E) |
| Minimum Temperature in the Northern Hemisphere |
-49°F (Mar 29) Batamy, Former Soviet Union (64N/129E) -46°F (Mar 29) Eureka, Canada (80N/86W) |
Get the Extremes virtual reality globe. (250X250 pixels, ~1M, Mac self-extracting archive or Windows .zip file)
A QuickTimeVR movie of the earth with the week's hot and cold and precipitation extremes. The
extreme readings pop up when you spin the globe to the correct location. Can you find this week's
"world-beating hot spot"?
To see this movie as a "virtual reality" object (you can sort of reach into the movie and spin the earth around) you'll need Apple's QTVR Player or appropriate Netscape plugins. The standard Movie Player will play QuickTime VR movies but it won't let you reach in and move things around.
Other QTVR objects are available at the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' Virtual Reality page.
