Death Valley keeps getting hotter. How do residents survive?
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Last month was the hottest ever recorded in Death Valley, with an average temperature of 108.5 degrees and overnight lows rarely dipping below 95.
  • Naz@sh.itjust.works
    41·
    1 month ago

    It’s almost like they named it something as a warning to perhaps keep people out of it

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      1 month ago

      Common misunderstanding, it was first surveyed by Salvador Deáth. He’s not well-remembered because his entire party mysteriously died of heat stroke.

      • Naz@sh.itjust.works
        21·
        1 month ago

        Well, they died of heat stroke in the right place – imagine dying of heat stroke in the Valley of Prosperity