132 for the high in Death Valley today

[desert rat]

Record is 134. Killer heat here, been inside hiding all day. Kudos to the power company.

http://www.aws.com/aws_2001/asp/single_ ... p?id=DTHVL

[Aslkahuna]

That reading, I believe, came from Furnace Creek which is not the official reporting site for Death Valley so it will most likely remain an unofficial reading.

Steve

[desert rat]

Furnace Creek is the official location.

The record is 134, set on this date in 1913.

[Aslkahuna]

I know what the record for Death Valley is, but again I think that the official reporting station for Death Valley is at the Park HQ which I think is located elsewhere from Furnace Creek. The same thing happened in June 1994 when Death Valley and Lake Havasu City both hit 128F for a new June record for the US. That same day, a reading of 131F was recorded in the Valley but because it was not from the official station or because it was taken with a non standard instrument (or both) that reading (which would have been the June record) was not accepted as an official reading and such may be the case here as well. However, these readings ARE important since they give more credibility to the 1913 reading and if we COULD get those readings to be official maybe we could wrest that 136F World's record from Libya.

Steve

[desert rat]

Cow Creek is what you're thinking of, four miles up the road from Furnace Creek. There's an EPA WX station there, not online.

At Furnace Creek theres a station operated by NPS and another station operated by AWS.

There is a station at Badwater, operated by NASA, not online.


Its even confusing to the DV experts and locals:

http://www.death-valley.us/postx2717-0-45.html

Does anyone know what the story is?

I haven't been able to get through to NPS to ask for two days due to TX and power outages.

[Hurricaneman]

Thats heat beyond comprehension

[Swimdude]

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why they call it "Death Valley."