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    Scorching days, searing nights: Not even Death Valley is immune to climate change

    by Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times Jul 19, 2023 4 minutes
    Steve Curry, 71, of Sunland, seeks shelter from the sun beneath an interpretive sign at Death Valley National Park on Tuesday.

    It was 10 p.m. and 116 degrees as a brutal wind whipped through the darkness.

    Here in Death Valley National Park — dubbed the hottest place on Earth — intrepid tourists waded into a hotel swimming pool seeking what little relief they could find.

    Park temperatures had soared to 126 degrees that afternoon, just a few degrees shy of the daily record.

    "I never knew such temperatures before," said Nicolas Combaret, 40, who was visiting Death Valley from France with his wife and 5-year-old son. It was one of several stops on their tour of the Southwest.

    "When we saw on the news that the temperature would be 125, 126,

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