As an intense and record-breaking heat wave continues to roast the American West, the highest temperature occurred on Wednesday at the lowest point in North America: Death Valley.
By Wednesday evening, high temperatures in Death Valley, California, pushed to 125 degrees, according to the National Weather Service, with an AccuWeather RealFeel® Temperature of 130. Death Valley is the record-holder for the highest air temperature ever recorded on Earth, a sizzling 134 degrees Fahrenheit in 1913. The high temperature of 125 degrees came just within 9 degrees of that world record.
Death Valley is certainly living up to its name as AccuWeather forecasters are cautioning that “most outdoor activity is potentially life-threatening” in such extreme heat, which will continue through the week. AccuWeather National Reporter Bill Wadell is in Death Valley and reporting from there on the network. By 9 a.m. on Wednesday the temperature had hit 106 there and kept going. After 1 p.m., the mercury had risen to 121.
By 5 p.m., local time, the NWS marked Death Valley and Stovepipe Wells, California, as the hottest locations in the Lower 48 on Wednesday, both at 125 degrees F. On the other end of the state, in northern California, one of the coldest temperatures of the day in the Lower 48 was recorded near Old Station. Both that location and a station near Sand Creek Station and Foster Flat in Oregon recorded low temperatures 25 degrees F — a 100 degree difference.
Read more at AccuWeather.
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