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Title: California had its hottest month on record. Death Valley had world's hottest month ever
Post by: Elderberry on August 13, 2018, 09:29:01 pm: USA Today by Doyle Rice 8/8/2018

California just sweltered through its hottest month ever recorded.

Out of the 1,483 months since records began in 1895, when Grover Cleveland was president, July 2018 was the hottest of all, with an average statewide temperature of 79.7 degrees, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration said Wednesday.

This means no lifelong Californian alive has lived through a hotter month.

And notorious hot spot Death Valley led the way, with an average July temperature of 108.1 degrees. This is an all-time high temperature record for any weather station in the world, NOAA said.

The heat was a major player in the deadly fires that have had the state under siege the past few weeks. Monster fires such as the Mendocino Complex Fire, the state's biggest on record, have scorched some 1,171 square miles this year, according to Cal Fire.

More: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/08/08/california-heat-july-state-hottest-month-ever-recorded/934540002/ (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/08/08/california-heat-july-state-hottest-month-ever-recorded/934540002/)
Title: Re: California had its hottest month on record. Death Valley had world's hottest month ever
Post by: Hoodat on August 13, 2018, 09:39:50 pm: Bush's fault.
Title: Re: California had its hottest month on record. Death Valley had world's hottest month ever
Post by: skeeter on August 13, 2018, 09:56:09 pm: I believe it. Every day for two straight months itâ€™s been 95 degrees at 3pm. Every day.
Title: Re: California had its hottest month on record. Death Valley had world's hottest month ever
Post by: Wingnut on August 13, 2018, 10:07:09 pm: It is settled science. Most of California is in one type of desert climate or another.
Title: Re: California had its hottest month on record. Death Valley had world's hottest month ever
Post by: DB on August 13, 2018, 10:27:15 pm: 1895...

Zip in geological time...
Title: Re: California had its hottest month on record. Death Valley had world's hottest month ever
Post by: truth_seeker on August 13, 2018, 10:35:02 pm: Quote from: The Ghost on August 13, 2018, 10:07:09 pm
It is settled science. Most of California is in one type of desert climate or another.

And Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, Oregon etc.
Title: Re: California had its hottest month on record. Death Valley had world's hottest month ever
Post by: Sanguine on August 14, 2018, 08:17:56 pm: Quote from: skeeter on August 13, 2018, 09:56:09 pm
I believe it. Every day for two straight months itâ€™s been 95 degrees at 3pm. Every day.

I thought it was hotter there than here. It's been 100+ by 3pm here. But, that's normal.
Title: Re: California had its hottest month on record. Death Valley had world's hottest month ever
Post by: truth_seeker on August 14, 2018, 08:25:14 pm: Quote from: Sanguine on August 14, 2018, 08:17:56 pm
I thought it was hotter there than here. It's been 100+ by 3pm here. But, that's normal.

A few years ago, didn't (somewhere in)Texas go 100 days of 100+ F or something like this?
Title: Re: California had its hottest month on record. Death Valley had world's hottest month ever
Post by: Wingnut on August 14, 2018, 08:25:54 pm: Quote from: truth_seeker on August 14, 2018, 08:25:14 pm
A few years ago, didn't (somewhere in)Texas go 100 days of 100+ F or something like this?

28 years ago
Title: Re: California had its hottest month on record. Death Valley had world's hottest month ever
Post by: Free Vulcan on August 15, 2018, 12:29:00 am: Funny, I thought even 20 years was not enough to disprove global warming, but one month is?

How about the month of April, nearly the coldest on record here?