(See the raw high-resolution Furnace Creek data here by choosing a time up to six days in the past from the drop-down menu, then choosing “Decoded Data”.) WMO has not yet certified last year’s 129.9 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4☌) reading on Augat Furnace Creek as valid, so there may be a long wait. Two possible areas of concern are that the temperatures at Furnace Creek showed a steep jump during the afternoon, and the nearby Stovepipe Wells station was considerably cooler, topping out at 122.6 degrees Fahrenheit (50.3☌).
Cautions about the recordįriday’s measurement will have to undergo review by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) before being declared officially valid. For perspective, according to What’s Cooking America, a medium-rare steak is cooked to an internal temperature of 130-135☏.Īccording to weather records expert Christopher Burt, who wrote the comprehensive weather records book Extreme Weather, and extreme weather expert Maximiliano Herrera, who tweets under the Twitter handle Extreme Temperatures Around the World, the observation, if confirmed, would be the hottest reliably recorded temperature in world history. For the second consecutive year, Death Valley, California, has set a world record for the hottest reliably measured temperature in Earth’s history.ĭeath Valley National Park’s Furnace Creek Visitor Center hit an astonishing 130.0 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4☌) on Friday afternoon, July 9, 2021, beating the previous world record of 129.9 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4☌), set there on August 16, 2020.
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