Can you imagine a temperature of 54 degrees Celsius. Well, this sizzling record-melting temperature was reached in the appropriately named Death Valley in California and Nevada.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/climate/death-valley-hottest-temperature-on-earth.html
Read the Death Valley alert yourself if you plan to visit the hottest place on earth and home of the Road Runner bird:
https://www.nps.gov/deva/planyourvisit/safety.htm
Have you ever been anywhere super hot like Death Valley?
I live in New Mexico. We have Road Runners, in fact, it is our state bird. Road Runners, can make up to 35 miles an hour and they kill rattlesnakes. Just thought you would like a couple of fun facts.
ReplyDeleteWow, I had no idea Roadrunners could kill snakes and rattlesnakes at that! I suppose they've got to eat whatever they can get in desert areas. Most of us know Roadrunner from the old cartoon with Wiley Coyote and his gadgets from ACME, so we didn't really get to know the bird 's real behaviour! Thanks for the interesting info.
DeleteWow,that's almost 130 degrees Farenheit. Highest temperature I have seen around here is about 103.Thats hot enough for me.
ReplyDeleteI know Bri. I'd melt at 103 and at 130 I'd vapourise! I wonder if people actually go to Death Valley for vacations?
Deletecold and windy noy but we got up to 46.6c
ReplyDeleteif you walk right directipon death valley survivable
plenty of australia this wont work
Are you in Oz Konsum?
Deletei was in uk round 84 and a heatwave in 30s was burning and killing ppl and water was still freezing'
ReplyDelete84 eh. Don't recall that heatwave. Water's always freezing here in Blighty. Probably warmer on the South Coast but here in the North forget it. Bracing! Meant to be getting windy here too. There's a whiff of Autumn in the air.
DeleteHottest I've been in round our way was 46.4C (115.5F) - was like being in an oven...
ReplyDeleteCheers, Tony
God that's hot Tone. I've been to Crete a few times and it was warm there but I don't think it was that hot. Went to Germany a few years in the summer and it peaked at 40 degrees. Phew!
DeleteWent for a walk in Antalya, Turkey, a few years ago. The temperature was 40°C.
ReplyDeleteIt was terrible. We HAD to stop for a beer every 10 minutes or so, just to stay hydrated !
Mish.
Sounds perfectly reasonable to stop for a beer every ten minutes when its that hot Mish! Hope the beer was cold!
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