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Actually probably the highest temperature legitimately recorded, as the 1931 temp was probably wrong.
by TwoBit 6y ago
Actually probably the highest temperature legitimately recorded, as the 1931 temp was probably wrong.
- adamhearn 6y agoWhy do you say that?
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- duskwuff 6y agohttps://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/an-investigation-of-death-valleys-134f-world-temperature-record.html https://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/an-invest...
- chrisco255 6y agoWhat kind of comment is this? Sorry, we had more than mastered the thermometer and proper record keeping by 1931. Some weather stations in the US have had their highs and lows continuously recorded since 1870, which is when the National Weather Service was established. Of course, the history of record keeping for temps and predicting weather was extremely important for farmers and the Farmers Almanac has been published since Ben Franklin's time. The 1930s were an extremely hot decade. The Dust Bowl happened in part because of the extreme heat and drought during this decade. It exacerbated the Great Depression. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_North_American_heat_wave https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_North_American_heat_wav... https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/dust-bowl?mediatype=photography&phrase=dust%20bowl&sort=mostpopular https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/dust-bowl?mediatype=photo...
- dx87 6y agoSince it looks like you didn't read the article before going on a rant, I'll paste the relevant portion for you. >Death Valley famously holds the record for the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth, which is 134 degrees. This record was set on July 10, 1913. However, that measurement is very much in question; an extensive analysis of that record conducted in 2016 by Christopher Burt, an expert on extreme weather data, concluded it was “essentially not possible from a meteorological perspective.”
- chrisco255 6y agoI'm sorry but one guy's analysis nearly 100 years later is not enough to debunk a weather record. One was a recorded observation by someone with no incentive to lie and the other is just conjecture. Of course it's not impossible.
- ggm 6y agoOf course it's not impossible. Sorry, but "of course" is like betteridges law of headlines to me: this begs questions. It goes to <citation needed>. You can't say "of course" without anyone asking "why of course"
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoI also distrust "of course" - perhaps even more than you. Sometimes people say "of course" to hide the "citation needed", which is bad enough. But sometimes it's even worse: They use it to try to make something patently absurd sound commonplace. I've seen it used that way several times.
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- tdeck 6y agoHere's a more thorough description of their research: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/10/25/new-analysis-shreds-claim-that-death-valley-recorded-earths-hottest-temperature-in-1913/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/... > First, the temperatures reported in Death Valley when the record was set were “not consistent” with weather observed in the same region at the same time > Second, neighboring weather sites did not post temperatures that were unusually hot. > Third, Reid and Burt assert the weather observer at the time, Oscar Denton, was inexperienced and may have even fudged the numbers. “The heat wave in July 1913 was the first such he was ‘in charge of’ as an official COOP observer..."