The “Death Valley National Park, California” seems to have recorded the highest ever temperature on earth which read as “130F” equal to 54.4°C. However, the US National Weather Service is still verifying the reading.
The temperature was recorded during a heatwave sweeping across the valley while the forecast had also predicted further rise in the temperature. During the scorching heat, California had also witnessed a “two days of blackouts” as one of its power plant failed due to malfunction. Brandi Stewart, working in the Death Valley National Park informed the BBC:
“It's an oppressive heat and it's in your face”.
Stewart has experience of five years working on and off at the national park, while she informed that in the month of August, she usually spends “a lot of her time indoor” as the outside simply gets “too uncomfortable”. In her words:
“When you walk outside it's like being hit in the face with a bunch of hairdryers. You feel the heat and it's like walking into an oven and the heat is just all around you.”
The above mentioned temperature reading was taken in “Furnace Creek in Death Valley”. Prior to this reading, the highest temperature on Earth was recorded as 129.2F/54°C again in Death Valley in the year of 2013. Although, a yet higher reading than the one mentioned above exists from Death Valley taken a century earlier as “134F”/56.6°C, it remains “disputed” as the BBC added:
“It is believed by some modern weather experts to have been erroneous, along with several other searing temperatures recorded that summer”.
Due to the sweltering heat, California’s Lassen County also observed a huge “firenado”, while the “Independent System Operator” of California has declared the situation as “Stage 3 Emergency” wherein electricity demand starts to “outpace supply”. This happens because a large part of the electricity supply in the region comes from “solar and wind energy” and people use that power to run their air conditioners. However, during the heatwaves the “power grid becomes strained” with the risk of complete malfunction.
As a result, the officials use “scheduled rolling blackouts” as energy controlling and conservation measures.
References:
bbc.com
The temperature was recorded during a heatwave sweeping across the valley while the forecast had also predicted further rise in the temperature. During the scorching heat, California had also witnessed a “two days of blackouts” as one of its power plant failed due to malfunction. Brandi Stewart, working in the Death Valley National Park informed the BBC:
“It's an oppressive heat and it's in your face”.
Stewart has experience of five years working on and off at the national park, while she informed that in the month of August, she usually spends “a lot of her time indoor” as the outside simply gets “too uncomfortable”. In her words:
“When you walk outside it's like being hit in the face with a bunch of hairdryers. You feel the heat and it's like walking into an oven and the heat is just all around you.”
The above mentioned temperature reading was taken in “Furnace Creek in Death Valley”. Prior to this reading, the highest temperature on Earth was recorded as 129.2F/54°C again in Death Valley in the year of 2013. Although, a yet higher reading than the one mentioned above exists from Death Valley taken a century earlier as “134F”/56.6°C, it remains “disputed” as the BBC added:
“It is believed by some modern weather experts to have been erroneous, along with several other searing temperatures recorded that summer”.
Due to the sweltering heat, California’s Lassen County also observed a huge “firenado”, while the “Independent System Operator” of California has declared the situation as “Stage 3 Emergency” wherein electricity demand starts to “outpace supply”. This happens because a large part of the electricity supply in the region comes from “solar and wind energy” and people use that power to run their air conditioners. However, during the heatwaves the “power grid becomes strained” with the risk of complete malfunction.
As a result, the officials use “scheduled rolling blackouts” as energy controlling and conservation measures.
References:
bbc.com
