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What Is The Coldest Maximum Temperature In Death Valley

What is the hottest temperature ever recorded on earth?

There’s numerous ways this question could be interpreted:The hottest air-observed temperature on Earth: 134F or 56.7C at Furnace Creek, California in Death Valley in 1913.The hottest observed ground temperature on Earth: 201F or 93.9C, also at Furnace Creek, in 1972.These are temperatures that are due to “weather”, and are “observed” temperatures, so they’re obviously not absolutely definitive - there may well be some place in the Sahara Desert or other area that has been hotter, possibly much hotter.There are some Heat burst records where temperatures briefly over 150F or 65.6C have been observed, but not independently verified. The hottest of these may have been in Iran in 1967: a brief spike to 188.1F or 86.7C was observed at Abadan during a heat burst.If you allow for temperatures due to volcanoes, asteroid impacts, nuclear bombs, physics experiments, etc, you can have temperatures in the thousands or even millions of degrees in the case of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider and other labs.

Why Death Valley temperatures are so extreme?

Death Valley sits at a spot where the sun in the dead of summer comes in almost vertically. That means maximum heating.Then there is very little vegetation, that could absorb some of this heat. All is reflected back into the air from the ground.The reason because Death Valley has very little vegetation is, that it receives very little precipitation. This is mainly caused by a semi-perpetual high pressure system off of the California coast. This brings either northwesterly winds towards the Valley, which is dry because it crosses several mountain ranges. In winter, you see more of a southwesterly wind, coming off of the cold water near the California coast, which makes it dry to begin with.Some time in late spring and early summer, the High gets parked directly overhead. That is when the heat and the drought are really on. This pretty much also shunts any tropical moisture from the south off.A dry soil does not absorb any heat for evaporation of soil moisture. Again, more heat available for making that temperature to soar.Finally, there is a unique positioning of the lateral mountain ranges. At night, air quickly cools in those ranges and will flow down into the canyons, because it is heavier than the hot air in the Valley. The ranges are just in the right distance of each other to allow both of these downhill airflows to collide at the level plain in the center of Death Valley. This causes turbulent mixing and whirling, not allowing the air there to really cool off like it otherwise would in the open desert.You wind up with really “hot” overnight lows! I think, that there have been overnight lows that do not get below 100F, but the AVERAGE overnight low in July is 88 F.So much for cold, freezing nights in the desert!These hot overnight lows will allow temperatures to really really soar the following day! It only takes some 35 degrees F of temperature rise to get into record territory, if your overnight low was 100F! In any desert, you can get a 35 F rise on any reasonably sunny day!

What was the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth?

A2A Welcome to Quoogle …93.9 °C (201 °F)July 15, 1972 Death ValleyFloor elevation‎: ‎−85 m (−279 ft) Area‎: ‎3,000 square milesIt’s a nice place to visit, but …Death Valley National Park (U.S. National Park Service)2016 Happy 100th, National Parks Service !!Death Valley, California 7 Day Weather Forecast - today’s weatherErroneous records:The former highest official temperature on Earth, held for 90 years by 'Aziziya, Libya, was de-certified by the WMO (World Meteorological Organization) in January 2012 as the record for the world's highest surface temperature (this temperature of 57.8 °C (136 °F), registered on 13 September 1922, is currently considered to have been a recorder's error).The standard measuring conditions for temperature are in the air, 1.5 meters above the ground, and shielded from direct sunlight. The highest confirmed temperature on Earth recorded according to these measures was 56.7 °C (134.1 °F) in Furnace Creek Ranch, California, located in the Death Valley desert in the United States, on July 10, 1913.Christopher C. Burt, the weather historian writing for Weather Underground who shepherded the Libya reading's 2012 disqualification, believes that the 1913 Death Valley reading is "a myth", and is at least four or five degrees Fahrenheit too high, as do other weather historians Dr. Arnold Court and William Taylor Reid.Highest temperature measured at 1.5 meters above the ground:Burt proposes that the highest reliably recorded temperature on Earth is still at Death Valley, but is instead 53.9 °C (129 °F) recorded five times: 20 July 1960, 18 July 1998, 20 July 2005, 7 July 2007, and 30 June 2013.Highest recorded ground surface temperature:Temperatures measured directly on the ground may exceed air temperatures by 30 to 50 °C.A ground temperature of 84 °C (183.2 °F) has been recorded in Port Sudan, Sudan.A ground temperature of 93.9 °C (201 °F) was recorded also in Furnace Creek Ranch on 15 July 1972; this may be the highest natural ground surface temperature ever recorded.The Furnace Creek Inn and Ranch Resort is a privately owned luxury resort in Furnace Creek, on private land within the boundaries of California's Death Valley National Park. It is operated by Xanterra.Highest temperature recorded on EarthList of weather records

What are the lowest and highest recorded temperatures on earth?

World's highest recorded:
Aziza, Libya (136.4 Fahrenheit)
World's lowest recoded:
Vostok Station , Antarctica (-126.9 Fahrenheit)

What is camping like in Death Valley like in the winter?

I prefer camping at Death Valley in the winter. The daytime temperatures are mild and nice. Although it can get very cold at night, even dropping into the teens, it’s easy to prepare for that.For the occasional rainy day, you want to make sure you’re camp is not in a low, flat area. Local campgrounds often have stands of Tamarisk trees, and these can provide a nice foundation for your tent, drainage and some covering. Low-lying areas can experience severe flash floods and you don’t want to be anywhere near that…

What's the hottest temp. on Earth? the coldest & where?

Highest temperature ever recorded in North America - 57°C (134°F) at Greenland Ranch in Death Valley, CA
average max temp in July in Death Valley is 116°F!!
Hottest urban area is Yuma AZ
high temps average 108°F in July
Hottest place in the world - Dallol Ethiopia - located south of the Red Sea
average annual temperature between 1960-1996 was 94°F !!
One of the coldest spots in U.S. - International Fall, MN
Average temperature in January is 3°F
longest cold streak - Langdon, ND - winter of 1936
temp remained below 0°F for 41 consecutive days
coldest temperature reading in US - Rogers Pass, Montana
-70°F on 20 Jan, 1954
coldest areas of the US:
Yukon and the Northwest Territories of Canada
coldest areas in N.H.:
Siberia and Greenland
coldest temperature ever recorded anywhere in the world:
-129°F at Vostok, Antarctica

What is the lowest ever temperature recorded in Ghana?

If my memory serves me right, the lowest temperature ever recorded in Ghana was 9 degrees Celsius recorded at Bole in the Northern region. Strange enough, current records from the Meteorological department peg it at 11 degrees Celsius at both Kumasi and Tafo. Supposed to have occured in the month of January, during the harmattan. Not surprisingly, there is no mention of the year. How accurate.Here is the link Climatology

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