The Celsius scale, also known as the centigrade scale, is commonly used to measure temperatures. The scale is based on the temperatures which control the physical state of water, with zero degrees Celsius being the temperature that ice melts. In other words, when water changes from a solid to a liquid state.
And 100 degrees Celsius being the temperature which water boils, and therefore changes into a gas state. However, the Celsius scale is not limited to this range.
For example, the temperature of the Sun is about 5,500 degrees Celsius. And most home freezers are set to around minus 18 degrees Celsius.
This means that the temperature of your freezer is 18 degrees less than zero. The range of temperatures of Earth varies greatly, from warm desert areas around the Equator to frozen continents at the poles.
The tourist, traveling to some iconic places around the globe, might experience temperatures like ten degrees Celsius in London, England, minus five degrees Celsius at Niagara Falls in Canada, 40 degrees Celsius at the pyramids in Egypt, minus 30 degrees Celsius in Antarctica, and five degrees Celsius in Machu Picchu in Peru. Our tourist experienced a total range of 70 degrees Celsius during his trip, from minus 30 degrees in Antarctica to 40 degrees in Egypt.
These temperatures are not even the hottest or coldest ever recorded on Earth. On the 10th of July, 1913, Furnace Creek in California reached a sweltering 57 degrees Celsius, making it the highest recorded temperature on Earth.
And in August 2010, a satellite recorded that the temperature in Antarctica had reached a chilly minus 94.7 degrees Celsius.
