It's official--Death Valley holds the record for the highest recorded ambient air temperature on Earth!
From Fox News, 09/14/12--
"El Azizia, Libya, no longer holds the title for "world's hottest temperature." Today, that record passes to Death Valley, Calif.
No, a heat wave didn't pass through the notoriously baking area yesterday. The new record-setting temperature of 134 degrees Fahrenheit (56.7 degrees Celsius) was actually recorded in Death Valley on July 10, 1913.
The temperature is only now being recognized because the previous record high temperature of 136.4 F (58 C) in El Azizia has been overturned by the World Meteorological Organization after an in-depth investigation by a team of meteorologists. The record temperature had long been thought dubious, but this new study has finally made the persuading case to overturn it, 90 years to the day after it was made."
YIKES,
Well I had to revise my response. I thought the new record was 136. But in re-reading the entire article it was based upon the Libya record being disallowed. So DVNP keeps its old record of 134 but is now the new world record too....still plenty hot.
Posted by Rodney Ninow on September 19, 2012 at 2:58 PM
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3 repliesFrom Fox News, 09/14/12--
"El Azizia, Libya, no longer holds the title for "world's hottest temperature." Today, that record passes to Death Valley, Calif.
No, a heat wave didn't pass through the notoriously baking area yesterday. The new record-setting temperature of 134 degrees Fahrenheit (56.7 degrees Celsius) was actually recorded in Death Valley on July 10, 1913.
The temperature is only now being recognized because the previous record high temperature of 136.4 F (58 C) in El Azizia has been overturned by the World Meteorological Organization after an in-depth investigation by a team of meteorologists. The record temperature had long been thought dubious, but this new study has finally made the persuading case to overturn it, 90 years to the day after it was made."
Read the entire article, here.
Pretty cool, eh?
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Well I had to revise my response. I thought the new record was 136. But in re-reading the entire article it was based upon the Libya record being disallowed. So DVNP keeps its old record of 134 but is now the new world record too....still plenty hot.