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Transcript of the segment
What BBN said on air. The facts are in the original report: Wikipedia.
Brock ThundersonHottest city in the world this Thursday is Timbuktu, Mali, forty degrees Celsius, and it's mostly clear, which feels like a taunt.
Hank LedgerA hundred and four Fahrenheit. That's the number you're angry at.
Brock ThundersonPer MET Norway, yes. Forty degrees, twenty kilometres north of the Niger River, and not one cloud I can name.
Brock ThundersonColdest is Norilsk, Russia, minus twelve. Eleven Fahrenheit. It didn't even bring a cloud to ignore me with.
Hank LedgerWhy would you want it to storm?
Brock ThundersonBecause I've got a forecast to give! And windiest is Utqiagvik, Alaska, forty-four kilometres an hour, and I'm not even there!
Hank LedgerTwenty-seven miles an hour. You own eleven windbreakers.
Hank LedgerOkay, so how's the weather over in New York?
Brock ThundersonHigh of eighteen, low of eight, wind up to twenty kilometres an hour, clear skies. Nothing. It's the worst forecast in the world.
Hank LedgerSixty-five and clear. You must be devastated.
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