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Death Valley visitors drawn to the hottest spot on Earth during ongoing US heat wave
Channel 3000 News/AP ^ | July 16, 2023 | AP Staff

Posted on 07/16/2023 6:23:18 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — As uninviting as it sounds, Death Valley National Park beckons.

Even as the already extreme temperatures are forecast to climb even higher, potentially topping records amid a major U.S. heat wave, tourists are arriving at this infamous desert landscape on the California-Nevada border.

Daniel Jusehus snapped a photo earlier this week of a famed thermometer outside the aptly named Furnace Creek Visitor Center after challenging himself to a run in the sweltering heat.

"I was really noticing, you know, I didn't feel so hot, but my body was working really hard to cool myself," said Jusehus, an active runner who was visiting from Germany. His photo showed the thermometer reading at 120 degrees Fahrenheit (48.8 degrees Celsius).

Most visitors at this time of year make it only a short distance to any site in the park — which bills itself as the lowest, hottest and driest place on Earth — before returning to the sanctuary of an air-conditioned vehicle.

This weekend, the temperatures could climb past 130 F (54.4 C), but that likely won't deter some willing to brave the heat. Signs at hiking trails advise against venturing out after 10 a.m., though nighttime temperatures are still expected to be over 90 F (32.2 C). The hottest temperature recorded at Death Valley was 134 F (56.6 C) in July 1913, according to the park service.

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To: doorgunner69

106 out near Picture Rocks, though I’m not that confident in the accuracy of this thermometer. Come on, monsoon!


21 posted on 07/16/2023 7:01:09 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
So was this 110 year old temperature record broken this weekend?

It's interesting how the earth is supposedly getting hotter yet this record has stood unbroken for all this time. You'd think it would be getting broken every year.

22 posted on 07/16/2023 7:03:44 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins.)
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To: doorgunner69; Steven Tyler

In 2012 Wisconsin had one of her worst droughts ever. And UNRELENTING heat! I had a thermometer on the garage and it was pretty much STUCK at 100 degrees for days on end!

Earlier that Spring Beau had planted 400 Black Spruce seedlings. On July 4th we hauled 800 gallons of water to them, via tractor. It hit 102 degrees! We were able to save 200 of the trees, which was a MIRACLE by ALL measures. That part of our ‘high land’ looks so WONDERFUL now - he planted for wildlife set-aside land. (Land that is not in crop production.)

It truly WAS the only time Wisconsin had ‘dry heat’ so far in my lifetime. ;)


23 posted on 07/16/2023 7:04:57 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I’m from the Appalachians and the desert was quite different.

The desert in bloom is very nice. I worked very remote areas and was privileged to have access over the SW ranges.

I followed a line from the NAD27 markers I had a map of.

I ran across lots of sardine cans and Dodge Brothers cars.

Lots of history out there. Watch out for the Javelina,
they are nasty rude.

:^)


24 posted on 07/16/2023 7:06:17 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: SaveFerris

Thanks! FReepers are the most educated people I know. :)


25 posted on 07/16/2023 7:06:48 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: chrisinoc

Apparently the Cabin has water.


26 posted on 07/16/2023 7:07:49 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I’d heard about them before but didn’t know all of the details how it happened.

Just that they ventured out there, completely unprepared for that hostile environment.


27 posted on 07/16/2023 7:09:09 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

I live in Kentucky too, right on the river. Ten years ago there were six coal fired plants pumping out cheap electricity within fifty miles of me. Today there are two. Obama did exactly as he promised. He bankrupted the industry. The remaining facilities are dead men walking.


28 posted on 07/16/2023 7:10:06 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Somewhere I have a photograph of snow and icicles on a road sign pointing to a turn to go to Death Valley. I took it late one night when I was driving up to Mammoth Mountain to ski, and we were hit with a really bad snowstorm in the high desert. Many cars had skidded off the road. We don’t have the same extremes as Mars, but we have a lot of extremes on this wonderful planet.


29 posted on 07/16/2023 7:11:22 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: eyedigress

“The desert in bloom is very nice.”

Agreed! My SIL and I traveled to the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in CA years ago in February and it was all in bloom and quite lovely. :)

The ‘Oasis’ in the center of it all was really breathtaking.


30 posted on 07/16/2023 7:12:32 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

It’s interesting that Germans like to visit Death Valley in the summer. I once stayed there in the month of June and at the motel, it seemed that most of the guests were German or English.


31 posted on 07/16/2023 7:13:22 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: neverevergiveup

We do! :)


32 posted on 07/16/2023 7:13:52 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

33 posted on 07/16/2023 7:13:52 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

We need him more than ever! :)


34 posted on 07/16/2023 7:15:08 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Steven Tyler

“ It’s a dry heat”

Yeah, my forge is a dry heat too, but I ain’t getting in it.


35 posted on 07/16/2023 7:15:36 PM PDT by rey
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“The hottest temperature recorded at Death Valley was 134 F (56.6 C) in July 1913, according to the park service.”

You mean to say that is the record and has not been that hot again. What happened to all the global warming bullshit and we only have a few years left, when we can’t even make it to where it was in 1913?


36 posted on 07/16/2023 7:16:38 PM PDT by George J. Jetso
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To: Paladin2

Apparently the Cabin has water.


Yes, there is a natural spring nearby which flows 365/24/7. Travelers and off-roaders often leave extra gear, food and water at the cabin.


37 posted on 07/16/2023 7:16:59 PM PDT by chrisinoc
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To: Steven Tyler

I have experienced that dry heat in Arizona in the summer.

It’s like sticking your head in to a heated up oven.


38 posted on 07/16/2023 7:17:08 PM PDT by Texas resident (We are living through Barak's fundamental transformation)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

What did they do? Enlighten us! :)


Take your choice on the video you want to see.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=death+valley+germans


39 posted on 07/16/2023 7:18:51 PM PDT by chrisinoc
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To: chrisinoc

Has WonderHussy been there?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRkyWI1tbWchz0uHfCMXK0w

I’ll have to research.


40 posted on 07/16/2023 7:21:03 PM PDT by Paladin2
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