Posted on 09/28/2020 9:20:13 AM PDT by BenLurkin
This year will go down as the fourth hottest summer in Death Valley history after the park recorded “some of the hottest days ever recorded on earth,” according to the park. But intense heat hasn’t stopped visitors from coming. In fact, some are drawn by the prospect of baking in a record swelter — what park officials have dubbed “heat tourism.”
On Aug. 16, the thermometer at Furnace Creek topped charts at 130 degrees Fahrenheit. This clocked in as the hottest temperature on record in the park since 1913, and likely the hottest in the world since 1931, pending official verification.
In the midst of rising temperatures, the park’s annual visitation has more than doubled in the last 10 years, with a record 1,740,945 people in 2019.
Park officials don’t discourage visitors from coming; they just request everyone proceed with caution. “These are public lands, and if we can provide safety and enjoyment, people can come and visit,” said Jennette Jurado, public information officer at the park.
Residents rise early to walk dogs and exercise between 4 and 6 a.m., striving to beat the heat.
When motorists are making some steep ascents, road signs encourage them to turn off their air conditioning. Keeping it on in these temperatures creates a risk of engines overheating. And a few have, resulting in two vehicle fires this summer and multiple cars breaking down.
Additionally, homes in the valley now have naturally occurring “extremely hot” tap water due to rising ground temperatures. To adapt, residents are turning off their hot water heaters and using them instead as “reservoirs to cool water down.” If done successfully, they can have room-temperature water come out of the hot faucet, and hot water come out of the cold.
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Right after I bought my first camera, I used to drive out to the Anza Borrego desert in the early morning to get some pictures. That desert heat is no joke.
>On Aug. 16, the thermometer at Furnace Creek topped charts at 130 degrees Fahrenheit. This clocked in as the hottest temperature on record in the park since 1913, and likely the hottest in the world since 1931, pending official verification.
Man Made global warming must’ve been going on for some time to have record temps in 1931 and 1931 and then nothing for 100 years.
Do you use a thermal process to get pictures of that heat?
1913 and 1931
Since Covid can’t survive at those temperatures, I suggest we all move there so we can get back to “normal”.
I’ve always wanted to golf there during the middle of Summer.
Well, that’s weirdly fascinating.
I’ve been in air temps that were just a shade or two over 100 degrees - but never in temps like 115 or 130.
Can’t imagine what it feels like. Obviously hot.
Sorry - you can’t state that Covid can’t survive until you receive permission from Fauci the Fraud.
In 2010 we hit 113 degrees in Nashville with southern humidity
It was brutal
100 is fairly uncommon here
I think hottest this summer was 96
So, the record was set in 1931, not in 2020. How interesting. That means that whatever global warming was being witnessed in 1931 somehow disappeared for 90 years. This seems to suggest that maybe that could happen again and the 1931 record might last yet another 90 years.
I wonder what caused all that global cooling for almost a century?
I grew up in Imperial Valley, CA. During the summer afternoon highs of 110+ are common, and if you’re lucky the overnight low might fall below 80.
And EVERYTHING has air conditioning out there. You need it.
For those who have never been to Death Valley, you should go. Probably the most under-rated National Park. You should also stop by the Joshua Tree National Park, as well. If it wasn’t for the over-abundance of leftist loons in coastal California, there would be no better state to live in.
Hottest on Earth? Pffffttt. Using military hardware near Mt Sinai in 1988 we recorded (and reported) surface temperature of 157 degrees Fahrenheit with nighttime low of 72.
Made building new bunkers a lot of fun!
The hottest I’ve experienced is 116... a couple of times, and 108+ hundreds of times. If you’ve got plenty of water and are out of the Sun you can do OK until someone has a health issue... then it’s no joke.
My big fear was always that someone would fall and be lying on the blacktop, which will sear you like a steak on a BBQ. In normal circumstances you don’t move someone who is on the ground in case there is a neck/back injury... but if the alternative is to fry like an egg... you make the tough call.
RECORDED! Waiting for the inland sea explanation. Crickets................
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