Posted on 07/16/2023 6:23:18 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
106 out near Picture Rocks, though I’m not that confident in the accuracy of this thermometer. Come on, monsoon!
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.
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. ;)
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.
:^)
Thanks! FReepers are the most educated people I know. :)
Apparently the Cabin has water.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
We do! :)
We need him more than ever! :)
“ It’s a dry heat”
Yeah, my forge is a dry heat too, but I ain’t getting in it.
“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?
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.
I have experienced that dry heat in Arizona in the summer.
It’s like sticking your head in to a heated up oven.
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
Has WonderHussy been there?
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRkyWI1tbWchz0uHfCMXK0w
I’ll have to research.
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