A high-end heat wave enveloped the Death Valley region during the middle of July, 2023. I saved a bunch of maps each day leading up… [Read More]
July 13, 2023 Heat Event in the Death Valley Region
A high-end heat wave enveloped the Death Valley region during the middle of July, 2023. I saved a bunch of maps each day leading up… [Read More]
July 12, 2023 Heat Event in the Death Valley Region
A high-end heat wave enveloped the Death Valley region during the middle of July, 2023. I saved a bunch of maps each day leading up… [Read More]
July 11, 2023 Heat Event for Death Valley
A high-end heat wave enveloped the Death Valley region during the middle of July, 2023. I saved a bunch of maps each day leading up… [Read More]
July 10, 2023 Death Valley Region Heat Event
A high-end heat wave enveloped the Death Valley region during the middle of July, 2023. I saved a bunch of maps each day leading up… [Read More]
July 2023 Death Valley Region Heat Event
A high-end heat event occurred in the Mojave Desert and Death Valley regions during the middle of July, 2023. The highest temperatures recorded at most… [Read More]
July 9, 2023 Death Valley Region Heat Event
A high-end heat wave enveloped the Death Valley region during the middle of July, 2023. I saved a bunch of maps each day leading up… [Read More]
Record Cool Start to 2023 at Westlake Village
The current year started off wet and cool for most of coastal Southern California (Jan-Mar), and it continued cool and very cloudy for most of… [Read More]
March 22, 2023 A tornado in Montebello
A potent storm swept through Southern California on Tue, March 21. On the next day, energetic cyclonic WSW flow continued over Los Angeles County above… [Read More]
September 22, 2022 Death Valley Too Hot Again
A recent blog entry by me which compared the official Death Valley temperature-measurement instrumentation with adjacent temporary equipment (installed by Dirk Baker of Campbell Scientific)… [Read More]
Detailed Afternoon Temperature Comparisons at Furnace Creek in Death Valley in July 2021
Dirk Baker of Campbell Scientific set up separate temperature-measuring instrumentation at the official Death Valley/Furnace Creek weather station in May, 2021. The purpose was, in… [Read More]
August 1, 2022 Stovepipe Wells 1SW Weather Station Images
A “USCRN” weather station was established near Stovepipe Wells, California, in Death Valley in May, 2004. USCRN stands for “United States Climate Reference Network,” and… [Read More]
August 5, 2022 Big Wet and Muddy Mess in Death Valley
(Youtube video with some video and pics of rain and flooding in DV on Aug 5) The 2022 summer monsoon season has been quite active… [Read More]
An Investigation of Death Valley’s 134°F (56.7°C) World Temperature Record (Reid/Burt WU article)
In 2016, climatologist Chris Burt asked me to write an article for his WU (Weather Underground) blog regarding my research on the record high temperatures… [Read More]
New State High Temperature Records for Washington and Oregon and Canada
The mega heat event of late June, 2021, smashed all-time high temperature records for many stations in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. This… [Read More]