That day is significant as the temperature rose to 134 degrees, making it the hottest recorded day in history. The record stood until it was broken by Libya some years later in 1922. UPDATE: In December, 2012 the World Meteorological Society - the climate agency of the United Nations - threw out the Libyan reading as there was not sufficient evidence for it. Death Valley is now officially THE HOTTEST PLACE ON EARTH!
And on the hottest day in the hottest place on earth on July 10, 1913 one of the founders of the nearby town of Rhyolite was driving through Death Valley. His car broke down in the sand dunes. He left the car and tried to walk out. He was soon dead - of dehydration. His name was Pete Bush.
134°F (56.7°C). That date was the hottest day ever recorded at Furnace Creek which is also the hottest atmospheric temperature ever recorded on Earth.
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The hottest temperature measured in Death Valley was at Furnace Creek on July 10, 1913, of 134 degrees.
The weather station at Furnace Creek in Death Valley where the hottest temperature ever recorded, a whopping 134 degrees Fahrenheit (56.7 degrees Celsius), was reached on July 10, 1913.
i found that 134° on July 10, 1913 in Death Valley, Calif
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The temperature hit 56.7 °C in Death Valley, California on July 10, 1913.
The highest reliably recorded temperature was 134 degrees F. in Death Valley, California, in July of 1913.
i found that 134° on July 10, 1913 in Death Valley, Calif
The coldest temperature ever recorded at Death valley was on Jan. 8 1913 at 15 degrees Fahrenheit. Oddly enough, the record high of 134 degrees Fahrenheit was recorded later that same year in July at the same location.
The hottest reliable temperature ever measured in a desert was 134 degrees in July of 1913 in Death Valley.
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The hottest temperature ever reliably measured on earth was 134 degrees F at Furnace Creek in Death Valley of the Mojave Desert on July 10, 1913.The hottest temperature ever reliably measured on earth was 134 degrees F at Furnace Creek in Death Valley of the Mojave Desert on July 10, 1913.
The highest temperature was measured at Furnace Creek on July 10, 1913, of 134 degrees F.