Death Valley: ‘Hottest temperature on Earth’ may have been recorded at Furnace Creek
4 years, 4 months ago

Death Valley: ‘Hottest temperature on Earth’ may have been recorded at Furnace Creek

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The mercury hit 129.9F in Death Valley, California on Sunday – a temperature that could be the hottest ever recorded on Earth. The National Weather Service said the temperature was recorded near Furnace Creek, close to the Nevada border, at around 3.41pm on Sunday. The current record for the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was also logged in Death Valley, according to the WMO. This means that, if Sunday’s temperature is confirmed, and the 1913 reading is later struck off, then the 129.9F logged near Furnace Creek on Sunday will become the hottest ever temperature recorded on Earth.

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Brutal heat wave breaks records across Southern California. When will it ease up?
4 months ago

Brutal heat wave breaks records across Southern California. When will it ease up?

LA Times  

Southern California continues to be battered by extreme heat that will continue for one more day after sending temperature records tumbling all weekend. 93-103 degrees; valleys: 103-111 degrees Tuesday: Los Angeles 80s-90s; valleys: 94-102 Wednesday: Los Angeles 70s-80s; valleys mid-80s Thursday: Los Angeles 70s-80s; valleys: mid-80s Records Several heat records were tied or broken across the region Monday, according to …

Death Valley sets another heat record. August temperatures also could be above average
5 months, 1 week ago

Death Valley sets another heat record. August temperatures also could be above average

LA Times  

Death Valley National Park set another record in July. The average high temperature last month in Death Valley was 121.9 degrees, tying the record set in July 1917. The highest temperature ever recorded in Death Valley was 134 degrees on July 10, 1913. Another study from 2019 found that about a third of Death Valley’s bird species have declined in …

Last Sunday was Earth’s hottest day in all recorded history, European climate agency says
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Last Sunday was Earth’s hottest day in all recorded history, European climate agency says

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — On Sunday, the Earth sizzled to the hottest day ever measured by humans, yet another heat record shattered in the past couple of years, according to the European climate service Copernicus Tuesday. Copernicus’ preliminary data shows that the global average temperature Sunday was 17.09 degrees Celsius, beating the record set just last year on July 6, 2023 by.01 …

Tourists defy heatwave warnings by US to capture Death Valley's unique landscape
6 months ago

Tourists defy heatwave warnings by US to capture Death Valley's unique landscape

Hindustan Times  

Hundreds of Europeans touring the American West and adventurers from around the US are still being drawn to Death Valley National Park, even though the desolate region known as one of the Earth’s hottest places is being punished by a dangerous heat wave blamed for a motorcyclist’s death over the weekend. ““It’s not cited to be an official temperature sensor,” …

Tourists still flock to Death Valley amid searing US heat wave blamed for several deaths
6 months ago

Tourists still flock to Death Valley amid searing US heat wave blamed for several deaths

Associated Press  

DEATH VALLEY, Calif. — Hundreds of Europeans touring the American West and adventurers from around the U.S. are still being drawn to Death Valley National Park, even though the desolate region known as one of the Earth’s hottest places is being punished by a dangerous heat wave blamed for a motorcyclist’s death over the weekend. “This is an incredibly popular …

Tourists still flock to Death Valley amid searing US heat wave blamed for several deaths
6 months ago

Tourists still flock to Death Valley amid searing US heat wave blamed for several deaths

Associated Press  

DEATH VALLEY, Calif. — Hundreds of Europeans touring the American West and adventurers from around the U.S. were still drawn to Death Valley National Park on Monday, even though the desolate region known as one of the Earth’s hottest places is being punished by a dangerous heat wave blamed for a motorcyclist’s death over the weekend. Kind of like walking …

‘Unprecedented’ heat wave in California brings death, fires, all-time highs
6 months ago

‘Unprecedented’ heat wave in California brings death, fires, all-time highs

LA Times  

Melissa Bolding and Bryan Bolding from Oklahoma City pose for a photo next to a thermometer at the Furnace Creek Visitors Center in Death Valley National Park on July 7, 2024. “It’s unprecedented heat — take this very seriously,” said Dan Berc, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Las Vegas. The San Joaquin Valley is expected to be under an …

Persistent heat wave in the US shatters new records, causes deaths in the West and grips the East
6 months ago

Persistent heat wave in the US shatters new records, causes deaths in the West and grips the East

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — A long-running heat wave that has already shattered previous records across the U.S. persisted on Sunday, baking parts of the West with dangerous temperatures that caused the death of a motorcyclist in Death Valley and held the East in its hot and humid grip. Phoenix set a new daily record Sunday for the warmest low temperature: it …

Death Valley sets a new daily record with a searing 128 degrees as the unrelenting West Coast heat wave drags on
6 months ago

Death Valley sets a new daily record with a searing 128 degrees as the unrelenting West Coast heat wave drags on

CNN  

CNN — Hundreds of new temperature records could be broken into next week as sweltering heat drags on across the country, impacting millions of Americans in the Western and Eastern US. Nearly 70 million people are under heat alerts Sunday, after over three dozen high-temperature records were either set or tied on Saturday, according to the National Weather Service. “In …

Motorcycle tour of Death Valley turns fatal as thermometer cracks 128 degrees
6 months ago

Motorcycle tour of Death Valley turns fatal as thermometer cracks 128 degrees

LA Times  

Visitors at the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley, where the heat Saturday was record-breaking. As the temperature climbed Saturday to a record 128 degrees Fahrenheit in Death Valley National Park, a group of motorcyclists became distressed by the extreme heat, and one of them died, a park ranger said. “Yesterday it was 128 degrees, which was a record …

Records tumble in Southwest US as temperatures soar well into triple digits and 122 in Death Valley
7 months ago

Records tumble in Southwest US as temperatures soar well into triple digits and 122 in Death Valley

Associated Press  

RENO, Nev. — Records tumbled across the Southwest United States on Thursday as temperatures soared past 110 degrees Fahrenheit from southeast California to Arizona, where the region’s first heat wave of the year was expected to maintain its grip for at least another day. The National Weather Service in Phoenix, where the new record high of 113 F on Thursday …

California’s heat wave breaks records, fuels wildfires
7 months ago

California’s heat wave breaks records, fuels wildfires

LA Times  

The heat wave that continues to scorch parts of California’s interior pushed temperatures across the state into the triple digits Wednesday and Thursday, setting several daily records. Record-setting temperatures Palmdale set a record high for both June 5 and 6, hitting 105 degrees Wednesday, two degrees above its record from 1981, and 103 degrees on Thursday, one degree past its …

Punishing heat dome to worsen over California, West and send temperatures to dangerous highs
7 months ago

Punishing heat dome to worsen over California, West and send temperatures to dangerous highs

CNN  

CNN — A brutal heat dome is ramping up and sending temperatures to dangerous levels in California and the West in what is the region’s first significant heat wave of the year. July-like high temperatures will top out at 20 to 25 degrees above normal in multiple Western states this week and could break several daily record high temperatures. Phoenix; …

California’s scorcher: ‘Heat dome’ brings broiling conditions. But a few areas will be spared
7 months ago

California’s scorcher: ‘Heat dome’ brings broiling conditions. But a few areas will be spared

LA Times  

After months of below-average temperatures and weeks of unseasonably wet weather, California’s first heat wave of the year is marking an abrupt transition into the summer months, with record-breaking, triple-digit temperatures expected to continue the rest of this week. Across most of interior Northern California through the southern San Joaquin Valley, officials are warning of a major heat risk Wednesday …

Hiker, 71, dies in Death Valley shortly after being asked by reporter why he was braving heat
1 year, 5 months ago

Hiker, 71, dies in Death Valley shortly after being asked by reporter why he was braving heat

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Steve Curry, 71, was pronounced dead after collapsing outside of a restroom on the Golden Canyon trailhead in 121F …

Why is Death Valley one of the hottest places on Earth?
1 year, 5 months ago

Why is Death Valley one of the hottest places on Earth?

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In 2022, over 1 million people visited Death Valley National Park with the park holding around 3,400,000 acres for …

US faces triple whammy of heatwave, tropical storm, wildfire smoke at same time
1 year, 5 months ago

US faces triple whammy of heatwave, tropical storm, wildfire smoke at same time

India Today  

The US experienced a range of unusual weather, from a tropical storm in Hawaii to record-breaking heat across its Sun Belt states and poor air quality in many areas as smoke from Canadian wildfires wafted across the border. A man places his head in misters during an excessive heat warning in Las Vegas, Nevada The hottest spot in the US …

116 degrees at night: Death Valley’s extreme heat goes off the charts from climate change
1 year, 5 months ago

116 degrees at night: Death Valley’s extreme heat goes off the charts from climate change

LA Times  

It was 10 p.m. and 116 degrees as a brutal wind whipped through the darkness. “When we saw on the news that the temperature would be 125, 126, we thought, ‘Wow, that’s impressive — it will be a good experience to live that, to feel the hottest ever here.’” Nicolas Combaret holds up his son Paulin Combaret while they play …

Phoenix hits record of 19 days above 110F as planet boils under sweeping heatwaves
1 year, 5 months ago

Phoenix hits record of 19 days above 110F as planet boils under sweeping heatwaves

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Extreme heat kills more Americans than all other disasters combined while figures published last week revealed that heatwaves contributed …

Death Valley nears record high temperature as heatwaves sweep the world
1 year, 5 months ago

Death Valley nears record high temperature as heatwaves sweep the world

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Death Valley hit 128 degrees Fahrenheit on Sunday – a searing high even for a …

Extreme weather grips the globe as heatwaves and wildfires rage
1 year, 5 months ago

Extreme weather grips the globe as heatwaves and wildfires rage

Al Jazeera  

Temperatures have reached new highs as heatwaves and wildfires scorch parts of the northern hemisphere. “The extreme weather – an increasingly frequent occurrence in our warming climate – is having a major impact on human health, ecosystems, economies, agriculture, energy and water supplies,” said World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Petteri Taalas. ‘Oppressive’ US heat In western and southern states in the …

Surviving Death Valley at 128 degrees ‘like a blow-dryer in my face’
1 year, 5 months ago

Surviving Death Valley at 128 degrees ‘like a blow-dryer in my face’

LA Times  

Death Valley temperatures soared to 128 degrees Sunday, breaking the daily record of 127 degrees set in 2005 and 1972. “It feels like a blow-dryer in my face,” said Ross Nikides, 31, who had stopped in Death Valley as part of a three-week road trip to see several national parks. “It’s the hottest I’ve ever felt.” The park on Sunday …

California's Death Valley sizzles as brutal heat wave continues
1 year, 5 months ago

California's Death Valley sizzles as brutal heat wave continues

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Temperatures in Death Valley, which runs along part of …

California’s Death Valley sizzles as brutal heat wave continues
1 year, 5 months ago

California’s Death Valley sizzles as brutal heat wave continues

Associated Press  

DEATH VALLEY, Calif. — Long the hottest place on Earth, Death Valley put a sizzling exclamation point Sunday on a record warm summer that is baking nearly the entire globe by flirting with some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded, meteorologists said. Temperatures in Death Valley, which runs along part of central California’s border with Nevada, reached 128 degrees Fahrenheit …

US Southwest swelters under dangerous heat wave, with new records on track
1 year, 5 months ago

US Southwest swelters under dangerous heat wave, with new records on track

Deccan Chronicle  

A dangerous heat wave threatened a wide swath of the Southwest with potentially deadly temperatures in the triple digits on Saturday as some cooling centers extended their hours and emergency rooms prepared to treat more people with heat-related illnesses. Around 200 hydration stations distributing bottles of water and cooling centers where potentially thousands of people can rest in air-conditioned spaces …

Death Valley visitors drawn to the hottest spot on Earth during ongoing US heat wave
1 year, 5 months ago

Death Valley visitors drawn to the hottest spot on Earth during ongoing US heat wave

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Signs at hiking trails advise against venturing out after …

Death Valley visitors drawn to the hottest spot on Earth during ongoing US heat wave
1 year, 5 months ago

Death Valley visitors drawn to the hottest spot on Earth during ongoing US heat wave

Associated Press  

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — As uninviting as it sounds, Death Valley National Park beckons. Signs at hiking trails advise against venturing out after 10 a.m., though nighttime temperatures are still expected to be over 90 F. The hottest temperature recorded at Death Valley was 134 F in July 1913, according to the National Park Service. People run to …

Dangerous triple-digit temperatures broil Southern California’s inland areas this weekend
1 year, 5 months ago

Dangerous triple-digit temperatures broil Southern California’s inland areas this weekend

LA Times  

Sergio Lopez, working around his mobile home under blazing sun Tuesday, cools off by pouring cold water over on his head at Oasis Mobile Home Park in Thermal, Calif. Dangerously hot temperatures are broiling California this weekend as a “heat dome” continues to bake the American West, increasing the risk of heat-related health issues and wildfires. “It’s going to get …

Death Valley could see 129-degree high, with low over 100, as California roasts
1 year, 5 months ago

Death Valley could see 129-degree high, with low over 100, as California roasts

LA Times  

A visitor poses for a photo with the thermometer at the Furnace Creek Visitor Center in Death Valley on Sunday. The heat dome parked over Southern California is expected to spin thermometers to nearly 130 degrees this weekend in Death Valley — where even overnight lows could exceed 100. Miguel Miller, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in San …

Record temperatures, raging fires, a strained power grid: California heat wave in full effect
2 years, 4 months ago

Record temperatures, raging fires, a strained power grid: California heat wave in full effect

LA Times  

Firefighters were briefly pulled off the front lines of the Route fire near Castaic on Thursday afternoon due to triple-digit heat, leaving the battle to aircraft. Near the Route fire, temperatures soared to 111 degrees Thursday, said Tom Fisher, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard, citing data from a Southern California Edison gauge near Castaic Lake. “It’s …

Heat wave sets new high temperature records, strains power supply
3 years, 6 months ago

Heat wave sets new high temperature records, strains power supply

LA Times  

Tourists stop for quick photos of the Forever Marilyn statue amid soaring temperatures this week in Palm Springs. A heat wave across California set new record high temperatures Saturday in some locations — including 120 degrees in Palm Springs — and authorities urged people to conserve electricity as the extreme conditions continue to tax the state’s power grid. Palmdale Regional …

California forest closed as wildfires burn, heat returns
3 years, 6 months ago

California forest closed as wildfires burn, heat returns

The Independent  

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Record heat expected this week in the West
3 years, 7 months ago

Record heat expected this week in the West

CNN  

CNN — More than 130 heat records could be broken this week in the West as an oppressive heat wave moves in. #CAwx pic.twitter.com/N9mXbVg7C2 — NWS Hanford May 31, 2021 In Northern California, “highs will range from 20 to 25 degrees above climatology for this time of year,” said the National Weather Service office in Sacramento. #mtwx pic.twitter.com/sCZ8Bp2FNR — NWS …

Record temperatures lure ‘heat tourists’ to Death Valley National Park
4 years, 3 months ago

Record temperatures lure ‘heat tourists’ to Death Valley National Park

LA Times  

Once he saw that temperatures in Death Valley National Park had hit 130 degrees Fahrenheit, Dan Markham, 40, knew he had to go. 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. In fact, some are drawn by the …

Increased warming closing in on limit agreed upon, says UN report
4 years, 4 months ago

Increased warming closing in on limit agreed upon, says UN report

Hindustan Times  

The world is getting closer to passing a temperature limit set by global leaders five years ago and may exceed it in the next decade or so, according to a new United Nations report. The report comes on the heels of a weekend of weather gone wild around the U.S.: Scorching heat, record California wildfires and two more Atlantic storms …

Death Valley’s brutal 130 degrees may be record if verified
4 years, 4 months ago

Death Valley’s brutal 130 degrees may be record if verified

Associated Press  

California sizzled to a triple-digit temperature so hot that meteorologists need to verify it as a planet-wide high mark. The temperature, measured at the aptly-named Furnace Creek during a blistering heat wave, would be the hottest temperature recorded on Earth in August, said Arizona State University professor Randy Cerveny, who coordinates the World Meteorological Organization’s extreme temperature team, which is …

US: Death Valley in California records highest global temperature in over 100 years
4 years, 4 months ago

US: Death Valley in California records highest global temperature in over 100 years

India Today  

A thermometer at Death Valley’s Furnace Creek in the Southern California desert has soared to 130 degrees Fahrenheit, the highest global temperature in more than a century, the U.S. National Weather Service said. “If verified, this will be the hottest temperature officially verified since July of 1913,” NWS Las Vegas, which owns the automated observation system, said of the reading …

Death Valley just recorded 54.4 degrees Celsius which, if verified, could torch the record book
4 years, 4 months ago

Death Valley just recorded 54.4 degrees Celsius which, if verified, could torch the record book

ABC  

Preliminary recordings show Death Valley in California on Sunday reached 130 degrees Fahrenheit, or 54.4 degrees Celsius, according to the National Weather Service in the United States. Key points: Death Valley's Furnace Creek weather station recorded 54.4C at 3:41pm local time on Sunday It is short of the official record of 56.7C recorded at the same station back in 1913 …

130 Degrees: Death Valley Sees What Could Be Record Heat
4 years, 4 months ago

130 Degrees: Death Valley Sees What Could Be Record Heat

NPR  

130 Degrees: Death Valley Sees What Could Be Record Heat Enlarge this image toggle caption Karla Ann Cote/NurPhoto via Getty Images Karla Ann Cote/NurPhoto via Getty Images The temperature at Death Valley National Park hit a scorching 130 degrees on Sunday, marking what could be the hottest temperature on Earth since at least 1913, the National Weather Service says. The …

Death Valley hits 130 degrees, thought to be highest temperature on Earth in nearly a century
4 years, 4 months ago

Death Valley hits 130 degrees, thought to be highest temperature on Earth in nearly a century

LA Times  

The Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley National Park. The National Weather Service recording, which is awaiting confirmation, is among the top three highest temperatures ever measured in Death Valley, as well as the highest temperature seen there during the month of August, according to park and weather service data. For the record: An earlier version of this article …

California heat wave may rival deadly July 2006 event, forecasters say
4 years, 4 months ago

California heat wave may rival deadly July 2006 event, forecasters say

LA Times  

The extended outlook calls for temperatures to continue to be above normal throughout California and the Southwest. The heat wave that began Friday in California may rival the deadly seven-day heat event of July 2006, the National Weather Service said. High pressure over southwestern California on Tuesday will reach a strength that occurs only about once every 10 years, said …

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