"Evacuation Warning issued: Oak Creek/Mt. Whitney Fish Hatchery area in Independence for mudslide concerns. Residents & visitors advised to evacuate & avoid area til storm passes.
Active Closures:
HWY 190: FULL CLOSURE from Jct. #395 to Jct. 127 due to flooding
HWY 178: FULL CLOSURE from DVNPS east entrance to junction 127
#DeathValley National Park is CLOSED, please avoid the area.
Travel is NOT recommended at this time." #cawx#Hilary
From a press release from Death Valley NP: Flash floods started in Death Valley National Park on Sunday morning. Furnace Creek Visitor Center received 1.04 inches of rain by 1:30 pm. The park might receive one to three more inches of rain Sunday night. For comparison, Furnace Creek’s average annual rainfall is 2.2 inches. This unprecedented rainfall is due to Hurricane Hilary.
Death Valley National Park may get over six inches of rain in the next couple of days. They are closing the park. This is crazy weather. You don't want to be in the park during this storm.
Flower that thrives in Death Valley may hold secret to heat adaptation: Insights into how Death Valley’s Tidestromia oblongifolia tolerates such high temperatures could help researchers to engineer crops that can survive global warming https://archive.is/0I9Vn
Insights into how Death Valley’s Tidestromia oblongifolia tolerates such high temperatures could help researchers to engineer crops that can survive global warming
Hi, former SoCal resident here, and former High Desert dweller. 30+ years out there.
I've been outside during 120 degrees F only ONCE in my life. I was a teenager, and ran HS Track, so I brought twice as much water and ran a half mile outside to keep up with my conditioning for a meet the following week.
I woke up some time later next to a large fan with my brothers and sisters putting wet towels on me indoors and encouraging me to sip water. No memory of how I wound up falling, I lost consciousness 500 ft. away from the house. If my brother wasn't driving back from the store I wouldn't be typing this today.
My point? Saying "I went out in extreme temps and lived" isn't a badge of honor. In my case, it was stupidity. I didn't escape it totally, a week later I learned along with near heat stroke, I had a ruptured ear drum from the fall and temps. My sense of balance has been screwed up ever since. A subtle reminder every time I climb a ladder or go to a height without a railing how that came to pass.
Even walking and casually touring Death Valley is a dumb move in heat like this, especially anyone over 45 (Know your risk for a stroke or embolism right this second? Yeah, neither do I. But you're definitely increasing it out there and it's a bad way to die.) Please don't join them to earn a T-Shirt.
#Landsat#Thermal view of Death Valley National Park. Just realized you fan use the thermal satellite sensors to determine where is likely to be the hottest part of the park, based on thermal signature from other days. (ie if you REALLY want to experience 131F, probably localized microcclimate) #CAwx#satellite#DeathValley#NationalPark
#Sardinia could reach 47°C this week. Much of southern Europe is experiencing extreme heat, and local records could be broken in Italy, Greece, and Turkey.
China provisionally recorded its highest temperature ever of 52.2°C in Xinjiang.
Death Valley has been running 2-4 degrees F above yesterday, high so far same as yesterday but 2 hours early, they could get close to 130. NWS & Accu are forecasting 129. https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/vef/rec/index.php?loc=DV
@godlessmom
Instagram trained generation, ignorant of history and public health knowledge. And they count on rescue by helicopter if they feel sick, don't they? I am so sorry for the staff there in the residence in Death Valley.
Man dies in Death Valley as temperatures hit 121 degrees (www.cbsnews.com)
The National Park Service said park rangers suspect heat may have been a factor in the 71-year-old's death.