Posted on 08/04/2017 9:29:25 AM PDT by rktman
There’s hot, and then there’s Death Valley hot.
While Southern California and much of the West cooked in July under a pair of heat waves that killed livestock, knocked out power and encouraged wildfires, nowhere was the heat more brutally enduring than in Death Valley.
According to the National Weather Service, Death Valley National Park broke its 100-year-old record for the hottest month ever in July, when the average temperature was 107.4 degrees, eclipsing the 1917 record of 107.2 degrees.
Though 107 degrees doesn’t sound that bad, keep in mind the average includes nighttime temperatures.
The average overnight temperature in Death Valley last month was 95 degrees.
The average daytime high was 119.6 degrees, said meteorologist Alex Boothe.
“It looks like there were a couple of days below 115,” he said — a consolation of some sort.
The hottest day of the month was July 7, when it reached 127 degrees. It also reached that temperature twice in June.
The world record for heat was reached in Death Valley on June 10, 1913 when it reached 134 degrees.
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So it had been cooling since 1917.
Has the heat melted all the snow in California yet?
You mean it was hot in the desert? In July? Who woulda thunk it?
So in 100 years time, for a single month a record was broken by 0.2 degrees. Because once a record is set, it is impossible for it to be broken in any way without human intervention.
But it’s a DRY heat. ;-)
Hottest “KNOWN” record at one tiny little spot on the earth since ....................maybe 1900
Here in Kentucky we had a very mild winter and everybody expected that to give us a very HOT summer. Nope. I’ve lived here six years and this was the mildest summer EVER!
Well, in six years, anyway.
If this is our new climate, I expect real estate values to increase dramatically. ;)
Why, do you it’s called DEATH VALLEY????
I once stayed overnight in a motel in Death Valley in the month of June. It seems the vast majority of the guests were European, and most of those were German. I heard some people speaking English, but with British accents.
There’s a big, hot high pressure zone all over the west. Our normal on-shore cooling breezes have stopped. Hot and humid...not our normal Bay Area weather. Smoke from the huge fires in BC has flowed into Puget Sound, down to Tacoma, Portland and Eugene.
I remember many, any years ago when it got up to around 140 degrees in the daytime. The National Park service closed the roads and state patrol had blockades up.
What makes me remember it was some woman insisted on being allowed through because “she had air conditioning” in her car. She was turned back.
So death valley sets this record, obviously it’s due to Al Gore and global warming. Obviously. Why else would they publish this story??
>>>Why, do you it’s called DEATH VALLEY????<<<
And two main attractions are “Furnace Creek” and “Badwater”.
It gets pretty darn hot in Death Valley in the summer. I took a road trip to Death Valley in August back in 1979, right after I got out of the service and had a job in Vegas. When I started descending into the Valley, I could see heat waves shimmering off the alkaline flats and they were the biggest I’ve ever seen. I stopped at the lowest point and even though it was a dry heat, it was stifling! Driving out going up in the pass out of the Valley, my car overheated. I had to open the hood and let it sit there for a while to cool down. I always brought water with me when driving in the desert, so once the radiator cooled down, I refilled it with water and got the heck out of there! It’s better to go to Death Valley in the winter, when temperatures are milder.
Hey, Joe!
Why do you think they called it “Death Valley”?...................
GMTA!.....................
DEATH Valley … why do you think it got that name?
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