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Death Valley set record for hottest month in U.S. history with average temperature of 107.39 degrees
According to the National Weather Service, the average temperature for Death Valley in July was a blistering 107.4 degrees. Video provided by Newsy Newslook
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August, 2017
Hell
on Earth: With an average temperature of 107.39 degrees in July,
Death Valley set the record for hottest month at a single location in
U.S. history.
Keep
in mind that that number is an average of all the high and low
temperatures. The average daily high temperature was an unbearable
119.6 degrees.
“It
should be noted that this is the hottest average monthly temperature
ever measured in the U.S. or, for that matter, anywhere in the
Western Hemisphere,” Weather Underground weather historian
Christopher Burt told the Capital Weather Gang.
It
was not a world record, however: Climatologist Brian Brettschneider
said the world record warm month was in August 2015, when King
Khaled, Saudi Arabia, measured an average temperature of 107.44
degrees.
The avg monthly temp for Death Valley in July was 107.4. This breaks the previous record of 107.2 set in 1917. Also the hottest month ever.
And
nights were no bargain in Death Valley last month: The temperature
didn't drop below 89 degrees the entire month of July, the National
Weather Service said. Three days, the overnight low temperature was
over 100 degrees.
July's
hottest day was the 7th, when Death Valley hit 127 degrees. It was
also 127 on two June days.
Death
Valley is a national park with no permanent residents except for a
few park service staff and rangers. It is the hottest, driest and
lowest of all U.S. national parks.
Several
other cities set record warm months in the West, as did Miami, the
weather service said.
We broke a record this July--the hottest month ever for Death Valley! 
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