Consecutive Days of High Temperature

Date: October 31, 1923 • Location: Marble Bar, Australia

The first of 160 consecutive days of 100° Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Western Australia.

The Fahrenheit scale is a temperature scale based on one proposed in 1724 by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736). It uses the degree Fahrenheit as the unit. Several accounts of how he originally defined his scale exist, but the original paper suggests the lower defining point, 0 °F, was established as the freezing temperature of a solution of brine made from a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride. The other limit established was his best estimate of the average human body temperature, originally set at 90 °F, then 96 °F.