Sweetwater City Schools operates public elementary and middle schools in the area. Sweetwater High School is part of Monroe County Schools. Tennessee Meiji Gakuin High School was located in Sweetwater from 1989 to 2007. It was located in the former Tennessee Military Institute.
On 13 September 2012 the World Meteorological Organisation disqualified the record for the highest recorded temperature , exactly 90 years after it had been established at El Azizia , Libya , with a measurement of 58 C. The official highest recorded temperature is now 56.7 C ( 134 F ) , which was measured on 10 July 1913 at Greenland Ranch , Death ...
It is the highest temperature ever recorded in the eastern hemisphere and almost certainly the highest temperature ever recorded on earth. A weather station in Mitribah, a remote featureless area of north-west Kuwait, took the temperature last week during an intense heatwave that continues in parts of the Middle East.