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Re:Death Valley hits 130 degrees, near world record by EMM_386 on Saturday July 10, 2021 @04:26PM (#27796190)
Wikipedia claims this is 134F, not 131F, but that is apparently disputed.

> The hottest air temperature ever recorded in Death Valley was 134 °F (56.7 °C), on July 10, 1913, at Greenland Ranch (now Furnace Creek),[6] which is the highest atmospheric temperature ever recorded on earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Valley#Climate

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Re:Death Valley hits 130 degrees, near world record by jefftk on Saturday July 10, 2021 @05:38PM (#27796645)
Perhaps read your parent again? They are distinguishing between reliable recent measurements and unreliable older ones.
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Re:Death Valley hits 130 degrees, near world record by walrus01 on Saturday July 10, 2021 @05:39PM (#27796654)
How accurate were thermometers in 1913?
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Re:Death Valley hits 130 degrees, near world record by wtf42 on Saturday July 10, 2021 @06:54PM (#27797049)
Accurate enough. Saint Petersburg has been registering daily temperature measurements and publishing them in newspapers since 1778 (in Delisle scale).
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Re:Death Valley hits 130 degrees, near world record by fallingfrog on Saturday July 10, 2021 @09:04PM (#27797697)
Hotly disputed
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