Had Kevin not noticed it—at 10 P. Another day, while climbing the hundred or so yards from another parking lot up to Zabriskie Point, an iconic vista starring ethereal purple-blue sunsets, we noticed a trail of what appeared to be human vomit, drying in the 8 P.
That weekend, California experienced a blistering heat wave, with many parts of the state sizzling in triple-digit temps. To be honest, the news was exciting in its ominousness—a superlative to vindicate all our complaints about how much the heat hurt, how badly we were melting. The previous day, a rare fire tornado had formed near Chilcoot, California, worsened by the heat wave.
A few days before that, a violent straight-wind derecho had devastated parts of Iowa. Meanwhile, the Atlantic was setting hurricane records, with 11 forming before peak season. The same thing was happening in fire country—the closer we crept to the Bay, the redder the sun grew, shining sinisterly through thick, smoky air.
The closer we got to San Francisco, the less I felt so front-row-and-center special—we were pretty much all sitting too close to the screen at the summer blockbuster that is the climate catastrophe. Most flooded. Most acidified. If Death Valley offers our closest taste of life lived on geologic time, then take me back there, please but next time, during winter!
Something went wrong. One final note of interest, the coldest temperature ever recorded at Death Valley occurred in, yes, the same year of Meteorologist Paul Dorian Peraton peratonweather. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , YouTube. Contact Us Use the form on the right to contact us. Philadelphia New York City Huntsville. Outlooks Medium range outlooks Seasonal Outlooks. Info Email. All Blog Posts. Overview Death Valley, California will have high temperatures near the degree mark over the next few days, but this is still short of the all-time record there that occurred way back in Why so hot in Death Valley?
Extreme weather of The intense heat of July in California was not the only extreme heat measured that year in the US. Weather station reliability at Greenland Ranch In terms of the reliability of the Greenland Ranch weather station at Death Valley, California, there should be little question in that regard.
The station is located at an elevation of 80 feet 24 m , and is usually degrees Fahrenheit cooler than Furnace Creek, which is at feet m. Among U. July St. This list may be updated if additional records come to light, or are set on Monday, when the heat wave will be winding down. Unfortunately, the latest long-range forecasts from the GFS and European models predict that the western U.
By one common measure, the 0Z Monday run of the European model is predicting that the heat dome at the center of this upper-level high will be nearly as strong as any ever observed in the region.
Warm air expanding at lower levels pushes the height of the millibar surface, roughly at the midpoint of the atmosphere, upward. The model predicted a mb height of decameters over Wyoming on July The record-high millibar height at Riverton, Wyoming, as measured in twice-daily weather-balloon launches soundings since , is dm. But long-range forecasts of this nature are often inaccurate, so the coming heat wave may fall short of setting all-time records.
Even if the next heat wave falls short of setting all-time records, it will boost the odds of significant wildfire activity, and intensify the record drought gripping the western U. Drought Monitor was established in The Bootleg fire in Oregon is burning out of control as the West endures its third heat wave this summer. The blaze has scorched more than , acres, threatening a major power grid. Kudos to Maximiliano Herrera extremetemps , William Reid stormbruiser.
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