Death Valley Temperature Record Is Restored - NYTimes.com
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By ADAM NAGOURNEY
Published: December 28, 2012
A Record Worth Wilting For: Death Valley Is Hotter Than ...
Eric Thayer for The New York Times
A 134-degree reading registered on July 10, 1913, at Greenland Ranch in Death Valley, Calif., is now the official world record.
FURNACE CREEK, Calif. — For Death Valley, a place that embraces its extremes, this has long been an affront: As furnace-hot as it gets here, it could not lay claim to being the hottest place on earth. That honor, as it were, has gone since 1922 to a city on the northwestern tip of Libya.