Posted on 08/22/2010 12:48:29 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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For Death Valley The greatest number of consecutive days with a maximum temperature of 100 °F (38 °C)°F or above was 154 days in the summer of 2001. Also Death Valley holds the record for the highest reliably reported temperature in the Western hemisphere, 134 °F (56.7 °C) at Furnace Creek on July 10, 1913—just short of the world record, 136 °F (57.8 °C) in Al ‘Aziziyah, Libya, on September 13, 1922
F = 2 x C + 30.
C = (F - 30)/2
Note that it works because you multiply the C by a number that's a bit too big, then add a number that's a bit too small. The errors tend to cancel. It's within a degree or two of the right number, and can be done in your head.
North Texas near the Oklahoma border had 70 straight days over 100 farenheit with no rain in the 90’s. Rough heatwave.
Makes you wonder how come the world population is so large.
Guess I am not surprised.
Winters there aren't so bad.
I remembered this one:
(Just south of you)
Historical Review: Megadrought And Megadeath In 16th Century Mexico (Hemorrhagic Fever)
"The epidemic of cocoliztli from 1545 to 1548 killed an estimated 5 million to 15 million people, or up to 80% of the native population of Mexico (Figure 1). In absolute and relative terms the 1545 epidemic was one of the worst demographic catastrophes in human history, approaching even the Black Death of bubonic plague, which killed approximately 25 million in western Europe from 1347 to 1351 or about 50% of the regional population."
"The cocoliztli epidemic from 1576 to 1578 cocoliztli epidemic killed an additional 2 to 2.5 million people, or about 50% of the remaining native population.
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