The previous record was 119, which was set in 2006. In northern Asia, temperatures reached more than 3C (5.4F) above average. It wasn't long after that when Woodland Hills in southern California set a record temperature of 121 degrees in early September, the "highest official temperature ever recorded in L.A. County," according to the National Weather Service. Death Valley reached the highest temperature ever reliably measured on Earth: 130 degrees Fahrenheit. Globally, NOAA said that the land and ocean temperature for June to August 2020 was the third highest in their 141-year history of record keeping.
The previous record was 120, which was set in the year after 2005.
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                           :op1 (z3 / date-entity
                                    :year 2005)))
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The previous record was 120 , which was set in the year after 2005 .
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