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

Can you imagine the media hysteria and near religiously apocalyptic reporting nationwide tomorrow had the record fallen today? I can.

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Still beats being in a swamp where the humidity is so high that you can feel water vapor in the air. Dry heat actually feels pretty good as long as you know when to cool off

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The humidity definitely sucks. It zaps the energy right out of you.

But I’ve been through many Louisiana summers and through record breaking 121 degree heat in Phoenix. After it got past 110 in Phoenix, it legitimately sucked worse than anything I experienced in La. By 115, the locals we worked with stopped talking shite about how I didn’t know “real heat”.

Even at midnight it felt like a blow dryer on me outside with 100 degree temps. It was brutal and there was never an escape except indoors. No rain. Very little wind.

I wouldn’t want anything to do with 130 degrees.

Here's some interesting info. It appears as if there is some debate about whether or not the July 1913 temp of 134°, which was (and would be) the world record has actually been "invalidated" or not.



This is noteworthy because it seems Forbes was perfectly okay hyping the heat in DV this weekend all the while "quoting" the National Weather Service Las Vegas office as "forecasting a world record hottest temp".

Well, there it is in their own words......had Death Valley reached 131° today it would not have been considered a world record by the very source Forbes leaned so heavily on in the article.

Note the Tweet, and then note this line from the Forbes article (NY Post pretty much ripped off that article from them):

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In 2013, the World Meteorological Organization decertified what had been the world’s all-time hottest temperature

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Forbes also said:

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Christopher Burt, who worked on the WMO decertification team, called the 1913 Death Valley “100% bogus” and likely came from an inexperienced temperature observer.

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Well, something must have changed because now even the WMO (the group that Forbes said decertified the record in 2013) now, apparently, views it as a record. Forbes had to have known this. The very people responsible for tracking temperatures in that area, whom they consulted on the article, know it

Shenanigans. Shenanigans and hysteria.