In 2021 the Lut Desert in Iran and the Sonoran Desert both recorded a scorching surface temperature of 177.4 degrees Fahrenheit (80.8 degrees Celsius), USA Today reported.

The coldest place in the cosmos is just above absolute zero, but it won’t stay that way forever.

In 2008, the Delaware Department of Transportation in Sussex County had been Cold In-Place Asphalt Recycling several roadways under contract to George & Lynch Inc. of Dover, DE.