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Tourists are flocking to Death Valley hoping to experience record breaking temperatures. Death Valley in California hit a US record of 134 degrees Fahrenheit (56.6C) in 1913. The US National ...
On Saturday, Death Valley reached 128 degrees, breaking the daily record of 127 set on July 6, 2007. Las Vegas reached 115 degrees, tying with records in 2007 and 1989.
Temperatures in Death Valley, which runs along part of central California's border with Nevada, reached 128 degrees Fahrenheit (53.33 degrees Celsius) on Sunday at the aptly named Furnace Creek ...
The temperature at Death Valley National Park, which stretches between eastern California and Nevada, will reach highs around 130 degrees at Furnace Creek, Sunday night through Wednesday ...
The highest temperature at Death Valley since 1913 that has been approved by the World Meteorological Organization is 129, set on June 30, 2013. The station also preliminarily reached 130 degrees ...
The highest point in Death Valley National Park is Telescope Peak, in the Panamint Range, which has an elevation of 11,043 feet (3,366 m). [10] A group of European-American pioneers got lost in the valley in the winter of 1849–1850, while looking for a shortcut to the gold fields of California, giving Death Valley its grim name. Although only ...
On Thursday, Phoenix is forecast to hit a whopping 113 degrees; Las Vegas may reach 112; and Death Valley, California, could be at 121 on amid the extreme heat wave.
The current official highest registered air temperature on Earth is 56.7 °C (134.1 °F), recorded on 10 July 1913 at Furnace Creek Ranch, in Death Valley in the United States. [1] For few years, a former record that was measured in Libya had been in place, until it was decertified in 2012 based on evidence that it was an erroneous reading.