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    It's official: Death Valley hottest place on Earth

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    Post by Guest Fri Sep 14, 2012 8:51 am

    It’s taken 99 years, but Death Valley finally got the record.

    The World Meteorological Organization announced it now considers Death Valley National Park the hottest place on Earth.

    The highest recorded surface temperature of 134 degrees (56.7 degrees
    Celsius) ) was measured on July 10, 1913, at Greenland Ranch, now
    fittingly called Furnace Creek.

    That was apparently surpassed on Sept. 13, 1922, with a recording of 136.4 degrees (58 C) in what is now Libya.

    But that reading has long been disputed. An international panel
    investigated and found a number of mistakes made at the time by an
    inexperienced observer. Consequently, the temperature reading was
    adjusted upward.

    The record reading at Death Valley came during a week of extreme heat in which the high reached at least 127 degrees each day.

    The ranch caretaker, Oscar Denton, was also the region’s weather
    observer and reportedly said of the 134-degree day: "It was so hot that
    swallows in full flight fell to the Earth dead. When I went out to read
    the thermometer with a wet Turkish towel on my head, it was dry before I
    returned."
    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/09/its-official-death-valley-hottest-place-on-earth.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=649324
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