Will Death Valley ....push it past 130 tomarrow..keep eyes on it....

[Hutch]

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[Chester B]

I saw they hit 130F - tying the all time reliable record.

[bubba]

Other high temperatures not verified:

140F. recorded at two Mexican stations-Delta Baja California and Riito, Sonora.

167F. recorded in the Gobi Desert of Interior Asia

Should "Heat Bursts" be included, as acknowledged by Weather Historian, Christopher Burt?

152F. Antalya, Turkey-July 10, 1977

Temperature rise from 100F. to 158F. in two minutes near Lisbon, Portugal on July 6, 1949

188F. in the shade recorded in June 1967 in Iran, where dozens of people died and asphalt streets were liquified

On June 15, 1960 a blast of hot wind drove the temperature to 140F. on the NW side of Lake Whitney, NW of Waco, Tx. Cotton fields were carbonized, leaving only burnt stalks standing.