Despite this report we haven’t quite gone Venus yet!
Waking Kiwis stunned to find they were going to be hotter than Mercury
Stuff,
4
April, 2016
Early
waking Kiwis who checked the weather forecast were astounded to
discover air temperatures on Monday were expected to exceed the
boiling point of water.
A
tweet with a picture of the MetService forecast puts the temperature
at 3.53am in Dunedin at 118 degrees Celsius, which was also the high
expected for the day.
Hell
on Earth? No, just a glitch at MetService.
Blenheim
had a reading of 119C shortly before 11pm on Sunday, while
Paraparaumu was predicted to be heading for 218C. Even Wellington was
headed for 117C.
Around
7am MetService made its own tweet, saying problems with the
temperatures shown on its website and app should be fixed.
Officially,
the hottest surface temperature ever recorded on Earth was 56.7C in
Death Valley, California in July 1913. Water boils at 100C, tin
melts at 232C and the average temperature on Mercury is 167C -
although with only a very thin atmosphere the closest planet to the
Sun ranges between 427C and -173C.
Jo Prigmore
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KIM POSSIBLE
Whoa whoa whoa going to be a hot day in Wellington today @MetService
hamish mcneilly
Heatwave predicted for Dunedin today ....@MetService
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