"El Azizia took the record for highest temperature ever recorded on Sept. 13, 1922, when a thermometer on a weather station hit a whopping 136 degrees Fahrenheit (58 degrees Celsius), thanks to southerly winds blowing in hot air from over the Sahara Desert. The sweltering temperature displaced the previous record holder of 134 F, measured at the Furnace Creek weather station in Death Valley on July 10, 1913."

Found here:Where's the Hottest Place on Earth?

We also know that:
"The single highest land skin temperature recorded in any year of the study was found in the Lut Desert in 2005 and measured a stunning 159.3 F (70.7 C). Lut had the highest surface temperature in 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2009 as well."

But that would be wishful thinking, so if you qualify by El Azizia standards, let's begin the conversation with anything related to topics considered relevant by HU standards and monitors.
thanks

Eat, Drink, and please post here if you can... xfiltate

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Hottest under the collar I've ever been was also from wind blowing off the Sahara. Aug 1978 in southern Morocco the campsite thermometer was registering 125F and it's the only day I've ever had to give up riding through heat. Even in T shirts and shorts it was unbearably hot.

I spent the afternoon sitting under a bridge, feet dangling in the river and reading Wuthering Heights (it's always pissing down and freezing in that book!).

So... what do we all think of Wuthering Heights? Better than Jane Eyre? People get very worked up over these things so keep it civil please.

Well I remember one particularly hot day riding in southern France where, stopping only to empty my pockets, I jumped in the river Tarn wearing all my riding gear including my helmet. The latter was a really bad idea, bit like being water boarded by the CIA. (joke)

Not really keen on the Brontës. But I was rather blown away by this audio of Bunny Sigler's 'Let the Good Times Roll' set to a video clip of the 1943 film 'Stormy Weather' (you can just make out Cab Calloway as conductor in the background)

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"For sheer delight there is nothing like altitude; it gives one the thrill of adventure and enlarges the world in which you live," Irving Mather (1892-1966)
posted by Tim Cullis

Tim, you were right as usual, Mather's quote was "nothing like altitude, not attitude as I thought. This might be a life changing event for me.

Cab certainly scaled the heights with Minnie the moocher a la Blues Brothers 1980.

And Heeers Cab:

https://youtu.be/u7ogK_unbqM

backofbeyond, what was your best take away from each book? I would really like to know, before I comment.

xfiltrate Eat, Drink and it's "altitude"not attitude.

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The bit from Jayne Eyre is easy and may well have resonance with the topic in hand:

"A ridge of lighted heath, alive, glancing, devouring, would have been a meet emblem of my mind when I accused and menaced Mrs. Reed:

the same ridge, black and blasted after the flames are dead, would have represented as meetly my subsequent condition, when half-an-hour's silence and reflection had shown me the madness of my conduct, and the dreariness of my hated and hating position."

I remind myself of that passage whenever things get heated for no real reason. It's very easy to get caught up in the flames and not realise the black and blasted damage that's going to be the inevitable result.

Wuthering Heights is a bit more difficult, mainly because so much of it works below the surface. It impacts at a subconscious level - if you've had the life experiences to resonate with it (and not everybody does). To go much further would mean delving into topics that I'm reluctant to discuss on an open motorcycle forum but some of the most emotionally laden prose I've ever read has come from the pages of Wuthering Heights.

I know it's often dismissed as "VicChickLit" but I think that's a mistake. It's only when I had to try and produce similar "from the depths of the soul" passages in a book I wrote five or six years ago that I came to understand how sublime Emily Bronte's abilities were. Jane Eyre is good but Wuthering Heights is as good as it gets - all IMHO of course.

The hottest place I have ever experienced was Parker AZ. It is between Yuma and Death Valley. Our son worked there so we went to visit in August. Stupid is tattooed on our head. It was 128 F at 3 pm, down to 100 by 9 pm. Never never never again--son has since moved.

backofbeyond - sort of caught me off guard this time....

If you mean victorian woman's literature than I agree with you. What is amazing is the depth and breath of Emily and Charlotte's works, these two brilliant writers, coming from similar environments yet perceiving life so differently and then crafting those perceptions into reality for millions to share. These works were written, by women, as men, for humanity.

I am not sure, but I think Wuthering Heights was published after Emily's death and if so was so in keeping with her inner reflection.

Charlotte was by some accounts, gifted with a more worldly point of view. This is exhibited in Jane Eyre.

So we sort of have inside out with the two. A phenomenon that occurs while reading Wuthering Heights.

I sensed an underlying covertness to Jane Eyre, that I just could not shake.

To wit Charlotte wrote justifying her and her sisters use of men's noms de plume:

"Averse to personal publicity, we veiled our own names under those of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell; the ambiguous choice being dictated by a sort of conscientious scruple at assuming Christian names positively masculine, while we did not like to declare ourselves women, because — without at that time suspecting that our mode of writing and thinking was not what is called "feminine" – we had a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice; we had noticed how critics sometimes use for their chastisement the weapon of personality, and for their reward, a flattery, which is not true praise."
"Biographical Notice of Ellis And Acton Bell", from the preface to the 1910 edition of *Wuthering Heights.

*Emily's only novel.

Understanding the above quote, only gives greater measure to two very talented and disciplined women. I will have to re read both to give any meaningful comment. This might take a while, but I will do it this year, I read them both half a century or more ago.

Meanwhile, I would like to learn about the book/s you have written. And, advise you to take heart...that my writings often pale in comparison with great writings, so don't give up, just write, write, write.

FYI rosa del desierto, is a literary agent. - PhD is Spanish Lit She is also an author who published two books on the works of Spanish civil war poet, Antonio Machado.

I will ask her about Emily and Charlotte, and their literary differences.
See what she says... xfiltrate
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greaaaat....

only ever managed a paltry 48°c = 118.4f this was near Karnak Egypt.

At the time all I can remember feeling is I need to get in a pool out of the sun... The Nile did not look clean and had Nile crocodiles in it!

I must contest these posts.

The hottest ever recorded temperature in the history in the Universe was inside my tent in Southern Sudan in mid August.

I could have boiled a couple egg in my underpants..

I probably did....


After an hour or two of literally fighting for survival, I ended up sleeping on the sand with the Scorpion's and face chewing wild dogs as it was 2c cooler.

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I visited Antalya once for a vacation in august. It was the hottest weather I have ever encountered. Thermometers all around the city were showing 50-55 C (122-131 F). It was insane. I have never seen anything like it, you literally couldn't walk on the street for more than a min under the sun.