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re: Tourists flock to Death Valley to experience possible world-record heat of 131 degrees

Posted on 7/14/23 at 4:33 pm to
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora
Member since Sep 2012
75416 posts
Posted on 7/14/23 at 4:33 pm to
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climb up into your attic


Or get in a hot car that's been in full sun in a parking lot for an hour.
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
61041 posts
Posted on 7/14/23 at 4:49 pm to
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I feel so sorry for the Park personnel who will have to go out to hydrate the survivors


This guy has some tips on staying hydrated.
Posted by Sun God
Member since Jul 2009
51949 posts
Posted on 7/14/23 at 4:52 pm to
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Tourists flock to Death Valley to experience possible world-record heat of 131 degrees


Posted by dukke v
PLUTO
Member since Jul 2006
216475 posts
Posted on 7/14/23 at 4:54 pm to
Can you imagine 131 degrees in south Louisiana????
Posted by biglego
San Francisco
Member since Nov 2007
84758 posts
Posted on 7/14/23 at 4:55 pm to
I’ve been to Death Valley in the summer and yeah it’s hot but it isn’t suffocating.

Frankly the hottest place on the goddamn planet has to be San Antonio in July.
Posted by NATidefan
Two hours North of Birmingham
Member since Dec 2008
36787 posts
Posted on 7/14/23 at 4:57 pm to
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Id love to feel it once. Just to see what its like.


I've got some thermal test chambers at work I can put you in and set em to 130 for a few hours. You can experience -40 while your in there too if you want.
Posted by trussthetruzz
Member since Sep 2020
9379 posts
Posted on 7/14/23 at 5:01 pm to
currently 118° in furnace creek but the heat index is only 109. So it feels hotter here in Baton Rouge and it’s only 96°
Posted by onelochevy
Slidell, LA
Member since Jan 2011
18324 posts
Posted on 7/14/23 at 5:01 pm to
These idiots can spend a day in the plant with me. Hang out in the reactor area where each one is running around 800 degrees. Always a joy in the summer time
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
75191 posts
Posted on 7/14/23 at 5:08 pm to
Pro tip:
If you're in or around Thibodaux right now you can have bragging rights over those folks. Your temp feels hotter than their's.




It really is a dry heat.

ETA:
They're at 120° right now with a heat index of 107°.
This post was edited on 7/14/23 at 7:24 pm
Posted by LSUtiger89
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2007
4701 posts
Posted on 7/14/23 at 5:14 pm to
Uphill… both ways
Posted by Tigerfan1274
Member since May 2019
4690 posts
Posted on 7/14/23 at 5:14 pm to
Go in your attic on a clear, 90+ degree day. It’ll be about 150
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
92313 posts
Posted on 7/14/23 at 5:16 pm to
about to go up there and change the ac filters, it’s 106 right now
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
61041 posts
Posted on 7/14/23 at 5:41 pm to
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about to go up there and change the ac filters, it’s 106 right now


You can’t access your A/C filters without going into the attic?
Posted by Pepperoni
Mar-a-Lago
Member since Aug 2013
4277 posts
Posted on 7/14/23 at 5:46 pm to
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It was hotter when I used to walk to school
My slog was uphill both ways and barefooted.
Posted by grizzlylongcut
Member since Sep 2021
15449 posts
Posted on 7/14/23 at 6:06 pm to
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And climate deniers think there’s absolutely nothing wrong with this.. something has to be done about our green house gas emissions.


Stfu, bitch.
Posted by Undertow
Member since Sep 2016
9142 posts
Posted on 7/14/23 at 6:11 pm to
And they’ll all probably have fans and ice packs and portable AC’s.

If so they’re a bunch of cheaters.
Posted by turnpiketiger
Member since May 2020
12264 posts
Posted on 7/14/23 at 6:40 pm to
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Maybe fly a few hundred of the firefighting planes over and dump it with a bunch of water so they can raise the humidity and get the "feels like" up to about 160 degrees.


They aren’t wasting any water over there.
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
102772 posts
Posted on 7/14/23 at 7:06 pm to
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And climate deniers think there’s absolutely nothing wrong with this.. something has to be done about our green house gas emissions.


frick off

Previous record was set over 100 years ago
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
75191 posts
Posted on 7/14/23 at 7:38 pm to
That Forbes article that the NY Post quotes is something.

It states:
quote:

Forecasters with the National Weather Service believe Death Valley’s Furnace Creek will reach 131 degrees on Sunday, with a low temperature that night of 101 degrees.

The article was written yesterday afternoon, so I don't know what the NWS Las Vegas office was forecasting then, but they aren't forecasting that now.


This post was edited on 7/14/23 at 7:38 pm
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
75191 posts
Posted on 7/14/23 at 7:44 pm to
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Previous record was set over 100 years ago

It also reached 130° in August of 2020. For some inexplicable reason that Forbes article called that a new world record, despite the July 1913 reading of the same temperature.

I'm not sure what to make of this quote:
quote:

Scientists believe Death Valley set the world’s all-time heat record once again in 2020, before outdoing itself the following year, though temperature measurements in both cases fell just shy of the 1913 record.


I guess tying record daily highs now means we can print the shirts.

This is getting very similar reporting as the "record rainfall" in Death Valley last year.

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