Death Valley just happened to be the hottest place on Earth on Sunday.
Various news media sources are touting it as setting the record for the highest temperature on Earth at 130°F.
And it was.
For Sunday…, and for August 16th.
According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the highest registered air temperature on Earth was 56.7 °C (134.1 °F) in Furnace Creek Ranch, California, located in the Death Valley desert in the United States, on 10 July 1913, but the validity of this record is challenged as possible problems with the reading have since been discovered.
Whatever… it’s Death Valley, and it’s hot.
If we ever go there, it won’t be in August.
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I would have said “Wouldn’t be caught dead there in August.” 🙂
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That’s for sure.
Except for traveling across a small part of southern California last year after we left Las Vegas, we haven’t visited California since 1980.
That will be changing after the pandemic, though. Our son-in-law, Shane, has a new job in Riverside, which is west of Los Angeles, though they are living in a city south of LA, about 5 miles inland.
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