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Brock takes Timbuktu's forty degrees personally

MET Norway's forecasts cover sixty-seven big cities on every continent, and Timbuktu, Mali, tops the heat list with a high of forty Celsius; the sky is not sorry.

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  1. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThe hottest place on Earth this Wednesday is Timbuktu, Mali, at forty degrees Celsius, clear skies. Not one cloud. It's doing it on purpose.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA hundred and four Fahrenheit. Is that the part you're upset about?

  3. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThe sky had one job, Hank.

  4. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistColdest is Norilsk, Russia, minus nine overnight, and it didn't even have the decency to be properly cloudy about it.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPartly cloudy, per MET Norway.

  6. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistPartly!

  7. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistAnd the windiest city is Honolulu, forty-four kilometres an hour, which is a strong breeze for a place where nobody in the entire state owns a hat that stays on.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorYou own eleven.

  9. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistAnd not one of them has ever been to Honolulu. They hear about it from the others in the closet.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAll right. What's it like here in New York?

  11. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistA high of sixteen, a low of eight, wind at twenty-one, clear skies. It's perfect.

  12. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistNothing is happening to me, and I take that personally.

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