Many people associate lakes with summer vacations, light cool waters, and the possibility of sunbathing on the shore. This article is devoted not only to warm, but literally hot water bodies available on the planet, and not the fact that a sane person will want to swim in at least one of them.

Which lake is the hottest? It is impossible to answer this question with accuracy, because small-sized bodies of water are very dynamic when heated and cooled. If you take a small and shallow body of water located somewhere on the equator, its temperature on a hot day can almost rise to a boil, and then cool off on a cold night or because of dilution with cool rain streams, or even evaporate during the summer season.

But in any case, the hottest are the volcanic lakes, at the bottom of which there is a volcanic crater or crevice, providing heating of the water. Also, high temperatures are famous for lakes arising at the place of exit of hot springs, geysers. Thousands of small lakes and streams of similar origin are found in any rift zones, not excluding the American Yellowstone, a valley representing the crater of a megavolcano. There are hot lakes, lakes and springs in the Caucasus; they can be found all over the world. This article will present only the largest and most interesting hot lakes..

Fifth place - Wanda Lake

The temperature of this lake is not so remarkable, there are hundreds of lakes hotter. However, it is worth emphasizing the fact of the huge difference between the temperature of its waters and the environment. After all, Lake Wanda is located in one of the coldest places on the planet, in Antarctica, right among the ice. And above it there is also an ice shell, reaching a thickness of 4 meters. However, at the bottom of this freshwater reservoir with a salty bottom there is water with a temperature of thirty degrees. And scientists cannot yet say for sure what the reason for the formation of this hotbed of heat is, because there are no hot springs or volcanoes here. The water is clean, but no one dwells in it. This is a very mysterious lake, the temperature of which scientists explain the effect of a thermos.

Fourth place - coastal lakes of the Sinai Peninsula

The lakes of the Sinai Peninsula are separated from the Red Sea by a very insignificant barrier, this is just a jumper from a shell rock. There is wildlife in this lake, but all of it lives only in the surface layers of water, no one wants to live at the bottom. And this is not surprising, because at a depth closer to the bottom, temperature can rise up to 60 degrees and aboveand it really isn’t the best place to live.

Third place - Fumarole Lake

There is a system of hot lakes in Kamchatka, and in particular, it is Lake Fumarolnoe, where water has an average temperature of 50, and in places above 60 degrees. There are no big riddles associated with this place, everything is natural here - the lake is located near the Uzon volcano, which heats the water.

Second place - Boiling Lake

The lake with the characteristic name Boiling is located on the Kuril Islands, on the island of Kunashir. This lake is located in the crater of a volcano with a diameter of about 7 km, it looks like a pool, not even with water, but with mud. In the crater there are two lakes at once - Hot and Boiling, and in the center of this system water reaches a temperature of 80 degreesalthough the average temperature of this mud-water mixture is 60 degrees.

First place - Boyling Lake

The word boiling translates from English as boiling. And this pond also has an island location, it is located on Dominica, an island state. The fact that the water boils here is visible even with the naked eye, and this is natural, because there is a volcanic crack at the bottom, to which the lava rises, which leads the pond to a boil. Eventually the temperature in this pond reaches 90 degrees. Of course, there is nothing living there, not a single aquatic inhabitant can withstand such harsh conditions. And swimming here is also life threatening. You can only admire this pond from a certain distance and wonder if the locals are not cooking their food in it?

Thus, in the hottest lakes in the world, water can rise almost to the boiling point, destroying all living things and raising clouds of steam into the sky, like from a bath. However, these are unstable reservoirs that can disappear at any moment, because the volcanic activity that warms them up can also intensify, causing massive evaporation of water, and lead to an eruption that will erase the reservoir from the face of the earth.In fact, there are much more hot lakes in the world than indicated in this article, but none of them exceeds the water indices of 90-95 degrees, because then only evaporation begins, which simply raises all the water into the atmosphere in the form of steam.