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The North African city of Ouargla, Algeria, located in the Sahara desert, has experienced temperatures of 124 ° F, or 51 ° C, which could be the highest ever recorded on the continent.
The record will not be official until experts from the World Meteorological Organization examine the thermometer to make sure it is working properly.
According to Axios, the blazing temperature was caused by a heated dome that forced air to flow to the highest temperature ever recorded on the continent was 131 F in Tunisia, but this number was largely challenged by meteorologists.
The new high temperature taken in Algeria should be certified official and the record in Tunisia should be declared invalid for the new one to take the place of number one.
However, record temperatures are not only being broken in Africa.
Recently, Quebec experienced a deadly heat wave that killed 33 people, reports the New York Times.
According to numerous scientific studies, a clear effect of global climate change, all the while long-time heat records are broken all over the world while we are just a few weeks after the summer.
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