Last week, Death Valley apparently smashed a pair of late-summer global heat records. Insight from weather historian Christopher Burt:
less than an hour ago
Australia is the only country in the Southern Hemisphere to have observed highs of 50 degrees Celsius or hotter. Four Australian sites have seen temperatures this hot, the highest being 50.7 degrees at Oodnadatta on Jan. 2, 1960. The hottest temperature ever measured during the month of September anywhere on Earth is 126 degrees at Mecca, California, on Sept. 1, 1950.Just two days later on Sept. 9, the daily low temperature at the new National Weather Service observing site near Badwater Basin in Death Valley was 102 degrees . This was the hottest daily low temperature ever recorded on Earth during September.
The new NWS observing station at Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park, with the rocky cliffs above the site seen in the background.
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