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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Well, that settles it, I am NOT moving to Death Valley. I was going to go there and open a crushed ice concession, but with these temps, it would end up as “crushed steam”.
And I had such high hopes,too.
Haven't needed them yet, knock on wood.
It's nice that they have the radiator water going up and out of there. My car had never overheated before. BTW, it was Daylightpass Rd, 374, that I was on. For some reason, I was craving a chocolate milkshake and stopped at a diner in Beatty, then headed home to Boulder City. I'd like to go back to Death Valley again and explore it some more, but this time I'll go in the winter. It's hellish there in the summer!
Aptly Named, it is.
Greenland - During the Medieval Warm Period, the coastline from the southern tip to midway up the western shore, was green (forested). The trees were cleared and the lands converted to pasture lands. As many as 10,000 Vikings lived there, with hundreds of farmhouses, dozens of churches, and a bishop. Upon the onset of the Little Ice Age, these Vikings had to leave. Today, with the receding glaciers, these Viking settlements are being revealed.
If the sex-crazed poodle (The Goron) hasn’t started braying about this as “evidence” of global warming, just give him 10 more minutes.
Greenland-why do you think it got that name?....Actually (So I’ve read) Iceland was habitable, So the Vikings named it ICeland. Greenland was icebound so they named it Greenland. It was a matter of defense, supposedly.
Good visual supporting photos!!
And a place in Michigan already had HELL.
They don’t call it death valley because the weather is perfectly fine there.
Looks like official weather station at the national park in my area, ten feet from asphalt parking lot on one side and twenty feet from road on other, totally useless data. But it’s totally neutral scientific data ! In a pugs eye!
Hey, Death Valley is where I spent 2 of the BEST days of my life, Honeymoon.
Nothing says lets get nekid like 120 f
(Hey we did go to the Coast after)
SPF 1,000 sun screen.
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