BBCNEWS Weather World August 29, 2021 09:51:00
To that time as we do with modern records today. we can take the record and actually have the sensor that recorded it tested independently in a lab and make sure that it was working. we don't have that luxury back with observations that go back to the 1900s. but we do the best that we can and in the case of the death valley in 1913 record, the evidence just hasn't been presented yet that it was a faulty observation. wmo temperature verification takes time. injuly this year it officially recognised a new high temperature from antarctica, over a year after it was recorded in early 2020. christop...