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Weather records are verified by a formal expert committee

The WMO archive checks instruments, siting and calibration before accepting a figure The World Meteorological Organization keeps an official archive of weather and climate extremes, and each candidate record is reviewed by a committee of specialists. They examine the instrument and its calibration, the exposure of the site, surrounding topography and the synoptic weather pattern. The process has overturned records, including a 1922 reading in Libya judged invalid in 2012. It sits in Mondo's records & extremes collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The WMO archive checks instruments, siting and calibration before accepting a figure. The figure is taken from World Meteorological Organization, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.