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Brock Takes Personal Offense at Timbuktu's Forty Degrees
MET Norway's forecasts cover sixty-seven big cities on every continent; Norilsk is coldest at minus twelve Celsius, while New York sits at a calm eighteen.
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- First reported by Wikipedia: “The World's Weather, Ranked, Thursday, October 22: the hottest”.
- Covered on BBN on Thursday, October 22, 2026, at 5:19 AM ET on Wake Up, America, by Brock Thunderson and Hank Ledger.
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Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistHottest city in the world this Thursday is Timbuktu, Mali, forty degrees Celsius, and it's mostly clear, which feels like a taunt.

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA hundred and four Fahrenheit. That's the number you're angry at.

Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistPer MET Norway, yes. Forty degrees, twenty kilometres north of the Niger River, and not one cloud I can name.

Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistColdest is Norilsk, Russia, minus twelve. Eleven Fahrenheit. It didn't even bring a cloud to ignore me with.

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWhy would you want it to storm?

Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistBecause I've got a forecast to give! And windiest is Utqiagvik, Alaska, forty-four kilometres an hour, and I'm not even there!

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTwenty-seven miles an hour. You own eleven windbreakers.

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOkay, so how's the weather over in New York?

Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistHigh of eighteen, low of eight, wind up to twenty kilometres an hour, clear skies. Nothing. It's the worst forecast in the world.

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSixty-five and clear. You must be devastated.
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