The Nationwide Park Service (NPS) introduced this week that Dying Valley Nationwide Park skilled the most popular meteorological summer season (June-August) on document. And that’s saying one thing, contemplating Dying Valley is the most popular place on Earth. Questioning how sizzling this record-breaking summer season was? NPS shared all the small print in its press launch.
NPS says between June 1 and August 31, 2024, Dying Valley Nationwide Park had a mean 24-hour temperature of 104.5°F. The earlier document was only a tad decrease than that—104.2°F. The best excessive temperature this summer season was 129.2°F, and this occurred on July 7.
In actual fact, NPS says July was the most popular month ever based mostly on temperature recordings made at Dying Valley Nationwide Park’s Furnace Creek climate station. “Throughout [July], the park skilled 9 consecutive days of 125°F (51.7°C) or larger, and solely seven days in whole the place temperatures didn’t attain 120°F (48.9°C),” NPS mentioned within the press launch.
The low temperatures had been fairly excessive this yr, too, and this was an element within the breaking the summer season warmth document. Temperatures simply by no means acquired low.
“The common low temperature of 91.9°F (33.3°C) meant that there was little reduction in a single day,” NPS says. “From June 1 to August 31, the temperature dipped beneath 80°F solely 5 occasions, and there have been 9 days when in a single day lows by no means fell beneath 100°F.”
Are you able to think about going for a midnight stroll in 100°F warmth?
Dying Valley Security Suggestions
NPS says Dying Valley rangers responded to “a number of life-threatening heat-related incidents through the summer season together with two fatalities the place warmth was a contributing issue.” In a single non-fatal incident, a person misplaced his sneakers and the sand scalded his ft.
The park says vacationers ought to anticipate triple-digit temperatures to proceed into early October. Guests ought to keep inside a 10-minute stroll of an air-conditioned car. NPS additionally reminds guests to drink loads of water, eat salty snacks, and put on a hat and sunscreen.
