The record was set in Death Valley National Park in California. The area is one of the driest places in the world.
14:10•Updated 14:26
In the United States, the highest temperature of all time has been measured in September.
The thermometer hit 53 degrees on Thursday at Furnace Creek in Death Valley National Park, California. It has never been this warm in September anywhere in the world. The previous September record temperature was 52.2 degrees.
According to weather forecasts, new records may also be set in the area in the coming days, as a “dangerous heat wave” has been promised for the area.
Death Valley National Park spokesperson Abby Wines says that the area is unusually hot for September.
– Sometimes we have weather tourists. They come here because of the high temperatures. You’d think that would scare them away, but the opposite is true, Wines tells the news agency Reuters.
Located on the border of California and Nevada, Death Valley is one of the driest places in the world. In 1913, a temperature of 56.7 degrees was measured there, which is still the highest temperature ever measured on Earth.
A flood covered the area in August
In Death Valley, extreme weather phenomena have been experienced recently.
In early August, a heavy downpour and the subsequent flash flood covered the national park. Almost the entire year’s rainfall in the area fell in three hours.
About a thousand people were stuck in the national park area after the roads were blocked. 60 cars were buried in the land mass brought by the flood. However, no one was injured. Some of the roads in the area are still closed.
The intense heat over Death Valley right now is due to a “heat dome” caused by an unusually strong ridge of high pressure.
Intense heat also worsens the risk of wildfires and strains the electricity grid, says USA Today (you will be transferred to another service). High temperatures are expected to continue in Arizona, Nevada and California until at least the middle of next week.