Avalon, a suburb of Melbourne, recently recorded 47.9 Celsius on 7th February 2009, "Black Saturday", the day of the worst bushfires in Victorian history. Other places around Melbourne got to 47C.
As of February 2013, the highest officially recorded temperature in Queensland was 49.5 degrees Celsius at Birdsville, in the state's southwest, on 24 December 1972.
The highest unofficialtemperature in Queensland was 53.1 degrees Celsius, recorded at Cloncurry in 1889. The outback Queensland town of Cloncurry originally held the record for the highest known temperature in the shade, at 53.1 °C (127.5 °F) on 16 January 1889. The Cloncurry record was later removed from Australian records because it was measured using unsuitable equipment (that is, not in a Stevenson screen, which only became widespread in Australian usage after about 1910).
46.4C/115.5F - the hottest day in Melbourne history, 7 Feb. 2009
The hottest temperature ever recorded in the Northwest Territories was 39.4*C, or roughly 102*F. This temperature was recorded on July 18, 1941 in Fort Smith.
44.7 Celsius
118 F
30.5 celsius
45.1
46.4 degrees celsius
The hottest recorded temperature in NYC occurred on July 9th 1936, 106 0F
The hottest recorded temperature in Auckland before today 12-Feb-2009 was 30.5 deg C.
Albania's hottest temperature recorded was 44˚C.
The hottest temperature ever recorded in the Northwest Territories was 39.4*C, or roughly 102*F. This temperature was recorded on July 18, 1941 in Fort Smith.
The continent that has the hottest recorded temperature is North America. This was on July 10, 1913 where temperatures reached 56.7 degrees Celsius.
37.9 C
30.5 celsius
44.7 Celsius
118 F
45.1
A2. The hottest place in the World is believed to be the Afar Depression (a.k.a. Danakil depression) where at 155m below sea level, the temp has been recorded at 69oC. Death Valley in the US, is at 86m below sea level and has recorded a temperature of 57oC.A1. The hottest temperature ever recorded was in the Sahara desert. In the US the hottest temperature recorded was in death valley, just a few degrees off of the temperature in the Sahara desert.