DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - An automated measuring system in California’s Death Valley reported a temperature of 130 degrees (54.4 degrees Celsius) amid a blistering heat wave on Sunday, a reading that would be among the highest ever recorded globally if it is confirmed.The heat brought record temps to Death Valley.
We're talking 130 degrees on Sunday. If verified, this would be the highest temperature recorded on Earth in almost a century.The temperature was recorded at 3:41 p.m.
at Furnace Creek near the park’s visitor center, the National Weather Service said in a statement that described the measurement as preliminary and not yet official."If verified, this will be the hottest temperature officially verified since July of 1913,.