Death Valley keeps breaking records, but is it really the hottest place on Earth?
LOS ANGELES — California’s Death Valley is one of the hottest places on Earth. But was it in fact the hottest place on the planet Thursday when the giant thermometer at Furnace Creek in Death Valley National Park hit an eye-popping 127 degrees? Officials caution that this is not an entirely accurate reading. “The thermometer reading is taken literally from that site. It’s on the back of the ...
by Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times
Sep 02, 2022
2 minutes
LOS ANGELES — California’s Death Valley is one of the hottest places on Earth.
But was it in fact the hottest place on the planet Thursday when the giant thermometer at Furnace Creek in Death Valley National Park hit an eye-popping 127 degrees?
Officials caution that
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