NEWS /ENVIRONMENT 'Insanely hot': Death Valley records world temperature record Temperature at Furnace Creek weather station - in Mojave Desert - soared as high as 54.4C (130F). 18 Aug 2020 GMT+3 One of the hottest air temperatures recorded anywhere on the planet in at least a century, and possibly ever, was reached at Death Valley in California's Mojave Desert where it soared to 54.4 Celsius (130 Fahrenheit). An automated observation system run by the US National Weather Service in the valley's sparsely populated Furnace Creek reported the record at 3:41pm (22:41 GMT) on Sunday at the crest of an extreme heatwave, a more frequent occurrence due to climate change. It was a dry heat: Humidity fell to 7 percent. But it felt "insanely hot" all the same, according to meteorologist Daniel Berc at the weather service's Las Vegas bureau. A heatwave roasting much of the western United States would continue all week, he said on Monday. "It's literally like being in an oven," he said in a telephone interview. "Today is another day we could take another run at 130F." Tourists on Monday took selfies by an outdoor, unofficial thermometer at the Death Valley visitor centre while avoiding touching metal surfaces with bare skin
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