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

Niamey, Niger tops the list at thirty-nine degrees Celsius across sixty-seven big cities, according to MET Norway; New York looks mild by comparison.

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  1. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistHottest city on Earth this Friday is Niamey, Niger, with a high of thirty-nine Celsius, partly cloudy. Partly! It couldn't commit to the sun either.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThirty-nine Celsius is a hundred and two Fahrenheit. Is that a record?

  3. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistI have no record of it, and I don't need one. It's a hundred and two and it knows what it did.

  4. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistColdest is Yakutsk, Russia, a low of minus twenty-three Celsius.

  5. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThat's minus nine Fahrenheit, per MET Norway, and it's cloudy, so it isn't even putting on a show.

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFour hundred and fifty kilometres south of the Arctic Circle. They did say it was south.

  7. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistAnd windiest, Wellington, New Zealand, gusting to sixty-two kilometres an hour. Every windbreaker I own just flinched.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSixty-two. That's thirty-eight miles an hour. Fine, now tell me about New York.

  9. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistA high of twenty, a low of twelve, light wind, clear skies. Nothing. Not one cloud for me to name.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSixty-eight and clear. I'll tell the sky you're upset.

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