Furnace Creek
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 3:56 pm
A Record Worth Wilting For: Death Valley Is Hotter Than ...
The hottest place on the planet! Furnace Creek was originally called the Greenland Ranch. (The name was changed in 1933, after the world record was recorded).
LINK: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/29/science/earth/death-valley-temperature-record-is-restored.html?_r=0
The hottest place on the planet! Furnace Creek was originally called the Greenland Ranch. (The name was changed in 1933, after the world record was recorded).
Until now. After a yearlong investigation by a team of climate scientists, the World Meteorological Organization, the climate agency of the United Nations, announced this fall that it was throwing out a reading of 136.4 degrees claimed by the city of Al Aziziyah on Sept. 13, 1922. It made official what anyone who has soldiered through a Death Valley summer afternoon here could attest to. There is no place hotter in the world. A 134-degree reading registered on July 10, 1913, at Greenland Ranch here is now the official world record.
LINK: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/29/science/earth/death-valley-temperature-record-is-restored.html?_r=0