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Methodology:

Data has been reviewed by the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information and the State Climate Extremes Committee (SCEC).

According to NOAA, "The data may come from sources other than official NOAA-supervised weather stations, but are archived, officially recognized observations."

NOAA says this data reflects the most up-to-date information available to them, currently. And any new values and record breaking temperatures may take "up to three months to appear as final data."

Story:

America's hottest day on record is at 134 degrees Fahrenheit. This temperature was recorded by a weather station in California, on July 10, 1913.

While the territory with the

lowest

maximum temperature on record is the Virgin Islands, at 99 degrees Fahrenheit. This was observed on three separate dates: July 31, 1988, Aug. 4, 1944, and June 23, 1996.

Moreover, some U.S. states and territories may have multiple dates and locations pinpointed, as they tie and share the location's maximum temperature readings.

Adjust the map's temperature filter, in the bottom right-hand corner, and see how maximum state temperatures generally increase the further west you go across the country. Exceptions include Alaska and Hawaii, both with maximum record temperatures at 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

According to Weather Underground, other maximum temperature extremes in Alaska include:

- Anchorage at 85 degrees Fahrenheit, in 1969.

- Fairbanks at 86 degrees Fahrenheit, in 1999.

- Juneau at 74 degrees Fahrenheit, in 2005.

- Kenai at 77 degrees Fahrenheit, in 2015.

- Nome at 74 degrees Fahrenheit, in 2002.

- Palmer at 79 degrees Fahrenheit, in 2015.

- Seward at 80 degrees Fahrenheit, in 1984.

- Utqiaġvik at 69 degrees Fahrenheit, in 1977.

- Wasilla at 80 degrees Fahrenheit, in 2015.