Death Valley IS hotter than Libya...
"After a yearlong investigation by a team of climate scientists, the World Meteorological Organization, the climate agency of the United Nations, announced this fall that it was throwing out a reading of 136.4 degrees claimed by the city of Al Aziziyah on Sept. 13, 1922. It made official what anyone who has soldiered through a Death Valley summer afternoon here could attest to. There is no place hotter in the world. A 134-degree reading registered on July 10, 1913, at Greenland Ranch here is now the official world record."
Thank you. That is quite interesting.
Reference?
Zane Grey wrote about Death Valley, long ago.
I may have the book yet.
I read it about 30 years ago.
I imagine the book was 50 years old then.