Washington: Following years of tireless investigation, the World Meteorological Organisation announced that two recent temperatures readings have been accepted as among the hottest recorded on earth.

One of the scorching marks came in from the Middle East, the other from South Asia.

A family cools off in a stream during a heat wave in Pakistan in 2017. Credit:AP

The temperature hit 53.9 degrees Celsius (plus or minus 0.1 degrees uncertainty) in Mitribah, Kuwait, on July 21, 2016 and 53.7 degrees (plus or minus 0.4 degrees uncertainty) in Turbat, Pakistan, on May 28, 2017.

"The Mitribah, Kuwait, temperature is now accepted by the WMO as the highest temperature ever recorded for the continental region of Asia," the organisation wrote in a statement.