On Sunday afternoon, dozens of people gathered at the thermometer - some wearing fur coats as a joke - hoping to snap a picture with a temperature reading that would shock their friends and family. It's home to the park's visitor center, which includes a digital thermometer popular with tourists.

Short-term: This particular weekend is being driven by a very very strong upper-level ridge of high pressure over the Western U.S.'įurnace Creek is an unincorporated community within Death Valley National Park. 'Long-term: Global warming is causing higher and more frequent temperature extremes. 'With global warming, such temperatures are becoming more and more likely to occur,' Ceverny, the World Meteorological Organization's records coordinator, said in an email. Temperatures at or above 130 degrees have only been recorded on Earth a handful of times, mostly in Death Valley. The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 134 degrees in July 1913 at Furnace Creek, said Randy Ceverny of the World Meteorological Organization, the body recognized as keeper of world records.

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