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Brock Takes Personally the World's Weather Extremes

MET Norway's forecasts put Timbuktu at forty degrees Celsius, the hottest of sixty-seven big cities on every continent; New York gets a mild nineteen.

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  1. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistHottest first. Timbuktu in Mali, forty degrees Celsius, one hundred four Fahrenheit, clear skies. Not one cloud. It's doing it to me on purpose.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's a desert city, Brock. Twenty kilometres north of the Niger River, per Wikipedia. Forty is a normal Tuesday.

  3. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistColdest is Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Minus nine Celsius, sixteen Fahrenheit, clear skies. It's the capital, and it never once called me back.

  4. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe cold didn't call you.

  5. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistWindiest is Honolulu, forty-five kilometres an hour. Twenty-eight miles an hour. In paradise! My windbreakers would all be in the Pacific Ocean by lunch.

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIs that bad? Forty-five seems fine for an island.

  7. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistFine? Hank, a hat would leave. A hat would leave, and then my hairpiece would ask for a ride.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo what is it like here in New York?

  9. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistA high of nineteen, a low of ten, wind up to eighteen kilometres an hour, clear skies. Nothing happens. Nothing at all, Hank.

  10. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistIt's an outrage.

  11. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSixty-seven and clear. Honestly, that's a pleasant number. I'd put it on a postcard and mail it to somebody I don't like.

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