Posted on 08/04/2017 9:29:25 AM PDT by rktman
Theres hot, and then theres 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 doesnt 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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31 days, 0.2 degrees, grasping at straws!
Mammoth Mountain ski resort in southern California will be closing its ski lifts this coming Sunday. Its a 3 hour drive from Mammoth to Death Valley.
There’s currently 35 inches of snow at the summit.
Squaw Valley in northern California closed on July 15th.
Nope. Still see snow fields on Mount Rose from downtown Reno. And it’s been hot in town.
Yes, we have that smoke. And heat...in the Willamette Valley...not normal. Want rain..
But doesn’t look like we will get any till mid September!
Its hot in Death Valley?
Who named it Death Valley?
Smokey in Reno too. And I don’t think it’s Nevada smoke either. A bit cooler today than the last 3.
Duh! Dr. Death. Hello........
The native tribes called it the “Garden of Eden” but then white men arrived. The land became barren, scorched, and the temps soared to unheard of levels, so White Man naturally changed the name to “Death Valley.”
Now you know the rest of the story.
Yeah, it’s hot there. So? The lower the sea level, the higher the temp. Mountain tops covered with snow. Natural order of things. Duh.
Also keep in mind that the DV weather station was moved so they are not measuring in the same spot anymore. Also keep in mind they use a few data points to extrapolate the temperature for the whole area....a process easily fudged.
Who would have thunk it? I guess manbearpig was right about the center of the erf being millions of degrees after all.
Driving out of Death Valley at night towards Bishop California was one spooky drive. Absolutely no one around on that lonesome road 190 and no sign of civilization anywhere until you could see down into the adjacent valley to the west. If I was ever going to abducted by aliens I felt it was going to be on that drive.
Well, are you sure you weren’t? Do deee doo deee dooo deeee! LOL!
It is in the 60’s today here in August.
No way to absolutely prove that but I don’t have any probe markings on my body. :)
Here in western Oregon, we’ve had a string of 100+ days. Now it is predicted that the average high will go down some 10 degrees. Miserable but just a longer than usual hot spell.
LOL! If “they” are that advanced and observed us, they’d take the bypass route. Alien headline “Nothing to see here, move along. No signs of intelligent life found.”
Because "Iceland" was already taken?
Your photo of the trash burn barrel is flawed evidence. No one would burn trash in a barrel while the barrel was on a wooden pallet.
Obviously a storage area.
There is much better documentation of poorly located weather recording stations out there. But the “next to a burn barrel” is BS.
Regards!
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