recentextremes

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Returns recent weather records (all-time or period-of-record extremes) for the world or specified countries. <br><b>When to use:</b> Find which locations have broken or nearly broken records in a recent date window. Set history_years ≥ 15 to ensure a meaningful period of record. <br><b>Date format:</b> YYYYMMDD for ymd_start and ymd_end. Keep windows ≤ 3 months per call for reasonable performance. <br><b>Performance:</b> Computed on demand; slower for large date ranges. Start with scope='monthly' or 'yearly'; fall back to 'weekly' for near-records. <br><b>Prerequisites:</b> Use /countries for country IDs; use /location for locids. <br><b>Investigate:</b> Use after /breaking identifies a record-breaking event to get precise extreme-value context. For US locations use period_type='DAY'; for non-US use 'FULL_DAY'. Hourly-derived metrics (wet bulb, wind gusts) for non-US require period_type='DAY'. <br><b>Augment:</b> Provides the 'record' framing for a story — 'hottest day ever recorded at this station.' Note: FULL_DAY and DAY expose different metric sets. Returns: results, extreme.locid, extreme.name, extreme.country_code, extreme.lat, extreme.lon, extreme.elev, extreme.period_type, extreme.metric, extreme.ymd, extreme.anomaly_type, extreme.scope, extreme.value, extreme.history_years.