Weather Data Sources
About the Data
The information at Current Results on record-setting high and low temperatures and the wettest and driest locations for each continent and the world are the weather extremes that have been officially verified by the World Meteorological Organization. Other weather records reported here for the continents were compiled from the WMO along with the other data sources listed below.
Data Sources
ASU World Meteorological Organization, World Weather and Climate Extremes Archive. Global Weather & Climate Extremes. School of Geographical Sciences, Arizona State University. Tempe, Arizona US. Web Page
Paul F. Krause and Kathleen L. Flood. 1997. Weather and Climate Extremes. 4th revision. [TEC-0099]. US Army Corp of Engineers. Web Page
Met Office. National Meteorological Library and Archive. 2007. Fact Sheet No. 9 - Weather Extremes. Web Page
US Department of Commerce, NOAA, National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, (NESDIS), National Climatic Data Center. Global Measured Extremes of Temperature and Precipitation. Web Page