Copernicus indique un record de température au sol près de Verkhoyansk en Sibérie : 48°C. 

48 degrees Celsius (118 degrees Fahrenheit) near Verkhoyansk It's important to note that those are ground temperatures, not air temperatures. For example, that latter figure was recorded in Saskylakh, also in the Sakha Republic, where air temperatures taken at the same time were a slightly cooler 31.9 degrees C (89.4 degrees F). That still set a record for Saskylakh, though, as the hottest pre-solstice temperature recorded there since measurements began in 1936.