Death Valley National Park in California – More than 45 million people are on heat watches until next week. This includes almost the whole states of Washington, Oregon, and California. About 29 million of them are under warnings for too much heat.
As of Friday, it was 127 F in Death Valley, California, one of the hottest places on Earth. This was the day’s record high temperature. A record of 122 F was broken, and the last time it was matched was in 2013.
The next few days will have even warmer highs. On Sunday, Furnace Creek in Death Valley National Park will reach 129 F, and it will stay around 130 F through Wednesday.
According to Scientific American, if it gets above 130 degrees, it will be the hottest temperature ever “reliably measured on earth.”
The National Weather Service says that Palm Springs was 124 degrees on Friday, which was warmer than the city’s previous record high of 123 degrees.
If you ask Randy Ceverny of the World Meteorological Organization, which is known for keeping world records, the warmest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 134 F (56.67 C) in July 1913 at Furnace Creek. (AP) Temperatures at or above 130 F have only been recorded a few times on Earth, and most of those times were in Death Valley.
In most of the West, the worst was yet to come. The National Weather Service said that temperatures would be between 15 and 30 degrees higher than normal next week, with highs in the triple digits.
The extreme heat, dry air, and strong winds have made it easy for flames to spread quickly. A lot of California and the Pacific Northwest are under Fire Weather Watches until the weekend.
The heat should slowly go away by the middle and end of next week, but temperatures will stay above normal for the rest of the long-term estimate.
