PhotoEven in Pakistan, no stranger to blistering heat, the temperature on Monday stood out: 122.4 degrees Fahrenheit. The World Meteorological Organization keeps global temperature records, but not by month, which means Monday in Nawabshah cannot be officially confirmed as the hottest April day. weather station near Santa Rosa recorded a lower temperature that day: 48.6 degrees Celsius, Maximiliano Herrera, a climatologist who maintains a large database of global temperatures, wrote in an email forwarded by Mr. Burt. Sign Up You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products and services. On neither of those occasions did the temperature reach 50.2 degrees, as it did in Nawabshah on Monday.

Source: New York Times May 04, 2018 09:00 UTC