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A Different Kind Of Weather Tourism
« on: June 28, 2013, 09:00:49 PM »
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June 28, 2013, 4:33 p.m.

Across the Furnace Creek Resort in Death Valley, sighs of “God, it’s hot,” can be heard in a variety of languages.

International visitors flock to the motel in Furnace Creek, where the hottest temperature in the world -- 134 degrees -- was recorded nearly 100 years ago, on July 10, 1913.

"It's very warm, and people are coming here to see what it feels like," said Ann Wegner, executive administrative assistant for the resort. "I don’t think anybody can really be prepared.

Temperatures in Death Valley are expected to reach 129 degrees Sunday and Monday, breaking the record for the hottest June temperature -- 128 degrees, set June 29, 1994, said Chris Stachelski, a National Weather Service meteorologist based in Las Vegas.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-record-temperatures-death-valley-20130628,0,750796.story

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Re: A Different Kind Of Weather Tourism
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2013, 04:06:24 PM »
Are those tourists staying in the Hansel & Gretel Inn (wink,wink)?
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Re: A Different Kind Of Weather Tourism
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2013, 04:45:50 PM »
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where the hottest temperature in the world -- 134 degrees -- was recorded nearly 100 years ago, on July 10, 1913.
but that is not the hottest temperature recorded in the world  :?:
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Re: A Different Kind Of Weather Tourism
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2013, 05:04:12 PM »
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where the hottest temperature in the world -- 134 degrees -- was recorded nearly 100 years ago, on July 10, 1913.
but that is not the hottest temperature recorded in the world  :?:

Actually Brian, it is.

http://wmo.asu.edu/world-highest-temperature

The old Libya record was overturned last year, if that is what you are referring to.

http://www.livescience.com/23156-new-world-hottest-temperature.html
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