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Media hypes new 130°F Death Valley Temperature – but it’s still short of the 134°F all-time record

Anthony Watts

On Sunday, August 16th the National Weather Service in Las Vegas, Nevada sent out a Tweet highlighting a new maximum daily temperature of 130°F in Death Valley:

Predictably, the media jumped on this number with the Los Angeles Times saying “…possibly the highest mercury reading on Earth since 1913“. Even the Continue reading “Media hypes new 130°F Death Valley Temperature – but it’s still short of the 134°F all-time record”

2018 was notable among other reasons for being the first year since modern records were collected in which no violent tornadoes, storms ranked EF4 or EF5 on a 0 to 5 scale, touched down in the United States. Indeed, it was a relatively calm year for tornadoes overall, with below normal numbers of tornados forming in the United States during most months. The low number of tornados, and complete absence of violent tornados, is a big part of the reason the United States experienced a record low 10 tornado-caused deaths in 2018. [1977 photo from Lakeview, TX courtesy of NSSL]

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"Let’s get something absolutely clear about this global warming debate. (I may have mentioned this before but it’s worth restating). Anyone at this late stage who is still on the alarmist side of the argument is either a liar, a cheat, a crook, a scamster, an incompetent, a dullard, a time-server, a charlatan or someone so monumentally stupid that they really should be banned by law from having an opinion on any subject whatsoever."

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