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Brock Takes Personally the World's Hottest, Coldest, Windiest

MET Norway's forecasts across sixty-seven big cities put Niamey, Niger on top at thirty-nine degrees Celsius; New York gets a calm twenty-degree high.

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  1. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistHottest on the planet this Thursday is Niamey, Niger, at thirty-nine degrees Celsius with clear skies. Not one cloud.

  2. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistPer MET Norway, it did this on purpose.

  3. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA hundred and two Fahrenheit. In October.

  4. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistColdest is Yakutsk, Russia, at minus twenty-three, and partly cloudy, so it can't even commit to being clear. It's ignoring my forecasts.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMinus twenty-three. Who is that forecast for?

  6. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistMe! Windiest is Utqiagvik, Alaska, fifty-seven kilometres an hour. That's a wind that knows where I park.

  7. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBrock, you're in a studio.

  8. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistIt finds a way. Three extremes, three cities, and not one of them is mine.

  9. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo what's it like here in New York?

  10. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistTwenty degrees for the high, nine for the low, wind at eighteen, clear skies. It's perfect. I've never been so insulted.

  11. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSixty-nine degrees, clear, and not one person here will ever thank you for it.

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