"Sometimes it evaporates so fast that you don’t even know you’re sweating until you notice the salty crust on your skin," Taylor said.Įxtreme temperatures are also dangerous and park officials advise visitors to never be more than a couple minutes' walk away from their cars where they can turn on the air conditioner. In this sort of heat, you immediately start sweating. The low temperature recorded Monday was 104. This broke the previous daily record of 124 set in 2001. On Monday, the park hit a high of 127 degrees at 4 p.m. "All of us at the park had made plans that if we hit a new record, we are going outside," Taylor said. Taylor ventured outside twice Sunday, once for about 10 minutes and then again for about 20 minutes, to experience the record-breaking weather. That 130 is only below the disputed all-time record of 134 degrees (56.67 Celsius) at nearly the same spot in 1913 and a 131-degree mark (55 degrees) in Tunisia in 1931, but both were in July, traditionally the planet's hottest month. The temperature, measured at the aptly named Furnace Creek, 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 already investigating the mark. If the sensors and other conditions check out, the 130-degree temperature recorded Sunday would be the hottest Earth has been in more than 89 years - and the third-warmest ever measured. "And when it's windy, it then feels like someone is blowing a hair dryer at you." "People say, 'But it's a dry heat,' and it is an extremely dry heat - I can immediately feel it on my face," Stewart wrote in an email. Taylor described stepping outside in scorching 130-degree heat on Sunday as similar to "when you pull something out of the oven and that blast of heat engulfs you."ĭeath Valley Ranger Brandi Stewart took the metaphor even further and said being in the extreme desert heat is like "walking into an oven."
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