• Libya loses world's hottest temperature record, now returned to Death Valley, CA
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[url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9541972/Death-Valley-officially-the-hottest-place-ever.html[/url] [img]http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02339/deathvalley_2339182b.jpg[/img] [quote=The Telegraph]During the summer of 1913, 134F heat was recorded in Death Valley, California, but was tipped by world-record temperature extreme of 136.4F, recorded in El Azizia, Libya, on Sept. 13, 1922. However, the American temperature has regained its title after an international team removed the world record from the former Italian army base in Libya, exactly 90 years after it was awarded. Meteorologists finished a detailed investigation and discovered that the 1922 event was conducted by an inexperienced observer who had not received full training. Using an unsuitable instrument that could have easily been misread, the meteorologist incorrectly recorded the temperature, according to investigators. As a result, the original reading can be seen to suffer from an inaccuracy of an estimated 12.6F. Rapporteur of Climate and Weather Extremes for the World Meteorological Organisation and Arizona State University President's Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences, Randy Cerveny, said, "We found systematic errors in the 1922 reading." The instrument used in Azizia was similar to everyday maximum-minimum thermometers, which record the day's highest and lowest temperatures on each side of a U-shaped glass tube of mercury. The temperature, if read from the top of the pin rather than the bottom, would be wrong. Suspicions rose when the world record temperature could be seen as an anomaly among other recorded values near the El Azizia location, roughly 35 miles southwest of Tripoli. "When we compared his observations to surrounding areas and to other measurements made before and after the 1922 reading, they simply didn't match up," Cerveny said. "This change to the record books required significant sleuthing and a lot of forensic records work." Investigators concluded that there were enough questions surrounding the measurement to deem the recording inaccurate, overturning 90-year-old record. A full report by the international team is to appear in the Bulletin of the American Meterological Society.[/quote]
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How fitting.
Title should say, "gets returned to Death Valley," since it was ours, they took it, and we got it back...
[QUOTE=valkery;37657623]Title should say, "gets returned to Death Valley," since it was ours, they took it, and we got it back...[/QUOTE] Managed to sneak in that change right before the time limit for changing thread titles went up.
California represent! Can I get a holla'?
[QUOTE=AJisAwesome15;37657655]California represent! Can I get a holla'?[/QUOTE] Holla-train COMMENCE! Holla!
Slippery slope, man. First it's our world records. What next Libya, what next? Blood!? .. Oh.
Since death valley is below sea level they should install a pipe between the sea and death valley and fill it up.
BRB going to Death Valley to pass out from heat stroke.
Oh, so this is why they attacked the embassy in Libya. It all makes sense now!
[QUOTE=Metalcastr;37657869]Since death valley is below sea level they should install a pipe between the sea and death valley and fill it up.[/QUOTE] Didn't they try and do something like that in the US and it turned out to be a massive failure.
You know your national park is badass when it's fucking named DEATH VALLEY.
DEATH VALLEY MAP CONFIRMED FOR BATTLEFIELD 4 [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/zqNQi.jpg[/IMG]
Not enough lens flare and dirt spots. [editline]13th September 2012[/editline] [img]http://i.imgur.com/ykDF4.png[/img]
[QUOTE=OhHello;37658376]DEATH VALLEY MAP CONFIRMED FOR BATTLEFIELD 4 [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/zqNQi.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] The sun is not blinding enough and there's no lens flare or dirt spots [editline]13th September 2012[/editline] damnit ninja'd
Death Valley is literally hell on Earth. Nice gift shop at Furnace Creek though :v:
[QUOTE=MR-X;37658207]Didn't they try and do something like that in the US and it turned out to be a massive failure.[/QUOTE] We have the Salton Sea, but that was accidental. The Colorado river was diverted for irrigation, but then when the river flooded so did the (below sea level) Salton sink, and without drainage the water wasn't going anywhere. You may be getting the massive failure part from the developments that sprung up along the sides and didn't take off as planned. [url]https://maps.google.com/maps?q=salton+city&ll=33.295386,-115.95439&spn=0.048426,0.090895&hnear=Salton+City,+Imperial,+California&gl=us&t=w&z=14[/url] You may notice the lack of anything built along half those roads.
This is literally the worst thing to happen to Libya forever
56 degrees celsius, dear fucking lord!
AMERICA NUMBER 1 AGAIN
[QUOTE=Xieneus;37658587]Death Valley is literally hell on Earth.[/QUOTE] Well, you know, the cliffs from the black mountains leading down to Death Valley are called [I]"Dante's Peak"[/I] (appropriately named). On top the place is called "Dante's View" and there you can play on a golf course called "Devil golf course" [editline]14th September 2012[/editline] I believe it's also where Mos Eisly, Tatooine takes place in Star Wars.
[QUOTE=Metalcastr;37657869]Since death valley is below sea level they should install a pipe between the sea and death valley and fill it up.[/QUOTE] They tried that once. It failed miserably- [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otIU6Py4K_A[/media]
Libya is already losing their records, clearly they were better under Gaddafi
I hate Fahrenheit!!! why do people use it? Celsius = way better
[QUOTE=Brakke;37663831]I hate Fahrenheit!!! why do people use it? Celsius = way better[/QUOTE] Because America
So am I blind? What was the record breaking temp?
[QUOTE=Brakke;37663831]I hate Fahrenheit!!! why do people use it? Celsius = way better[/QUOTE] I've always found fahrenheit to be more exact.
It's about 58 °C. It's almost twice the average we get in summers in Germany.
The hottest I've experienced is 47c (116f) I can't imagine 56c though, holy crap
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