One Month After Record Rains Washed Away Roads, Death Valley Nears Global Sept. All-Time High Temp

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The flooding on Aug. 5 washed out several roads, including the main highway into the park, Route 190. That highway has since reopened, but many other roadways are still too damaged to allow cars to travel on, with pavement entirely washed away by the rushing waters that enveloped parts of the park. The historic rainfall, triggered by this year’s unusually strong Southwest monsoon, also temporarily stranded around 1,000 people. Businesses and hotel rooms flooded, while cars were trapped in parking lots by floating garbage bins or immobilized by debris flows.

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Though park rangers in Death Valley are not yet done cleaning up from the flooding, Mother Nature has moved on. On Thursday, temperatures in the park reached 124.4 degrees Fahrenheit, just 1.6 degrees below the highest temperature ever recorded in September anywhere in the world — 126 degrees Fahrenheit. That record reading was measured in Mecca, Calif., in September 1950, which is a little over 300 miles south of Death Valley.

This weekend, Death Valley has a real chance to break some of its own heat records — if not the worldwide high-temperature record for September. The National Weather Service is forecasting a high of 124 degrees on Friday, a number that would smash the previous high for Sept. 2 — 122 degrees — which was set in 2017. Saturday’s record is also a candidate to be rewritten, with a forecast high of 123 degrees, two degrees higher than the former record, which was set in 2007. The most extreme heat doesn’t arrive until Labor Day, though. The current forecast from the NWS has temperatures in Death Valley rising to a wicked 125 degrees, making it more than possible that the temperature there will not only break the local record but also manages to rise past the global all-time high for September.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/09/02/death-valley-heatwave-rain-record/

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1. Death Valley hits 127 degrees, setting record for hottest September day on the planet, 9/2/22

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/death-valley-127-degrees-record-hottest-september-day-on-the-planet/

The national park, famous for being one of the hottest places on the planet, set a new record for the hottest September day anywhere on the planet when its Furnace Creek thermometer hit 127 degrees on Thursday ((Thursday Sept 1 -Progree)).

But the heat wave is just in its third day Friday, and is expected to last through Labor Day, so setting another record is still a possibility. However, it's unlikely the park will break the record for the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth – 134 degrees recorded in Death Valley on July 10, 1913.

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2. And there it is . . .

Thanks for the update!

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3. And thanks for the exciting suspenseful buildup to the record-smashing grand finale 😊