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1 JustMark  Sat, Jun 29, 2013 2:41:29pm

But, it’s a dry heat…

2 Shiplord Kirel  Sat, Jun 29, 2013 2:44:35pm

Death Valley is flirting with a world record high here. The current record, 134 degrees, was set at the aptly named Furnace Creek Ranch in Death Valley almost exactly 100 years ago, July 10, 1913. (Higher records claimed in Libya in the 20s are no longer accepted as accurate.)
The list of national and regional records is fascinating. Only a few countries or large regions have never experienced freezing temperatures or temperatures above 100. The extremes for Puerto Rico are 40 and 99.4 degrees, for example, giving it a range of just 59 degrees over the past couple of hundred years. It has been over 100 degrees in such places as Sweden and Switzerland, but never in tropical Puerto Rico.

3 sizzzzlerz  Sat, Jun 29, 2013 4:44:42pm

But at least when it cools of to 98, it feels likes its only 94!

4 lawhawk  Sun, Jun 30, 2013 5:09:14am

re: #2 Shiplord Kirel

Yeah, and Furnace Creek and Death Valley in general have seen some of the biggest temperature swings anywhere - the record high and low are 134 and 15 (F).

Oh, and the chances for even more eyepopping temperatures today are better considering that the temperature so far hasn’t gotten below 100 degrees overnight. At the 4:10AM PDT observation it was 104 degrees.


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